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PM now has to takea call on caste-based census:Nitish KumarNEW DELHI: Followingthe meeting with PrimeMinister Narendra Modion Monday over caste-based census in thecountry, Bihar Chief Min-ister Nitish Kumar saidnow the prime ministerhas to take a call on thematter.Briefing mediapersonsafter the meeting, NitishKumar said, "The PrimeMinister listened to allmembers of the delega-tion on caste census. Weurged Prime Minister totake an appropriate deci-sion on it. We briefed himon how resolutions havebeen passed twice in thestate Assembly on castecensus.""Recently a minister fromthe central governmentgave a statement that thecaste-based census willnot be conducted. Thismade us anxious. Fol-lowing this, all parties inBihar including the Oppo-sition met on the issue. Itwas then proposed tomeet Prime Minister onthe issue," he added.

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India evacuates another 241including 75 Sikhs from Kabul

AGENCYNEW DELHI, AUG 23

Indian authorities on Mondayevacuated another 241 people in-cluding 75 Sikhs amid the deterio-rating situation in war-tornAfghanistan.

These people are being evacu-ated from Kabul via Dushanbeand will arrive in India late atnight, Delhi Sikh GurdwaraManagement Committee ChiefManjinder Singh Sirsa informed.

"Update from Afghanistan-Another 75 Sikhs are beingevacuated today from Kabul viaDushanbe who will arrive in In-dia late night today. We thankPM Office India and Ministry ofExternal Affairs for their mas-sive support," Sirsa said in a

tweet.Afghanistan's situation is

dwindling as people are in rushto leave the nation after the Tal-

iban seized control last week. OnAugust 15, the country's govern-ment fell soon after PresidentAshraf Ghani left the nation.

Taliban extendamnesty to AshrafGhani, SalehKABUL: Taliban have extendedamnesty to ousted Afghan Presi-dent Ashraf Ghani and Afghanformer Vice President AmrullahSaleh, senior Taliban leaderKhalil Ur-Rahman Haqqani said.Speaking to Geo News on Sun-day, Haqqani, a and HaqqaniNetwork leader who has beenput in charge of Kabul security,said: "We forgive Ashraf Ghani,Amrullah Saleh, and (AfghanPresidential Security Adviser)Hamdullah Mohib. We forgiveeveryone, starting from a generalwho fought against us to a com-mon person."

Action to be taken againsthospitals showing

negligence: Manohar LalBUREAU CHANDIGARH, AUGUST 23:

Haryana Chief Minister, Sh.Manohar Lal said that the StateGovernment has ensured adequateoxygen supply in the state duringthe COVID-19 Pandemic.

He said that a committee willbe formed to investigate the com-plaints received against such hos-pitals for showing negligence ingiving required treatment duringthe Pandemic. Strict action will betaken against such hospitals, headded.

The Chief Minister shared thisinformation in regard to the issueraised by the opposition duringZero Hour during the ongoingMonsoon Session of the HaryanaVidhan Sabha.

The Chief Minister informedthat about 13,000 people died dueto COVID-19 in the hospitalsacross the State. Of these, about9,500 were residents of Haryana,while about 3500 were COVID pa-tients from other states. There areabout 4000 private hospitals inHaryana. Oxygen was suppliedeverywhere through agencies inevery city. Oxygen was also sup-plied from a nearby city if needed,said Sh. Manohar Lal.

The Chief Minister said that insome hospitals of Hisar, Rewariand Gurugram districts some ir-regularities were reported and amagisterial inquiry has been con-

ducted for all such complaints re-ceived from the hospitals of thesethree districts. In two reports per-taining to Rewari and Gurugramhospitals it was stated that nodeath was reported due to lack ofoxygen. In the investigation reportof Hisar district, the matter of neg-ligence of Soni Hospital was high-lighted and the said report hasbeen sent to the Superintendent ofPolice, necessary action will betaken. The Chief Minister said thatduring the peak of the secondwave of the COVID-19 Pandemic,it was noticed that some hospitalsadmitted more patients than theircapacity. In Hisar's Soni Hospitalwhere the matter of negligencecame to light, the consumption hadreached 80 cylinders per day whilethe number of cylinders availablewith the hospital was 20.

PANKAJ BHARATIYAHAMIRPUR, AUG 23

Union Minister Anurag Thakur hasflayed former Jammu and Kashmirchief minister Mehbooba Mufti over herstatement that the situation in the unionterritory would turn like neighbour-ing countries(in an apparent refer-ence to Afghanistan) if the Centrefails to restore Article 370.

Only those people who had loot-ed the state were now upset, theMinister said. "PDP leaders shouldunderstand that the states of Jammuand Kashmir and Ladakh are devel-oping a lot under the BJP rule asthey are freed from the clutches ofthose who had looted them for yearstogether," said Thakur while ad-dressing the media here late on Sun-day.

Anurag Thakur flays MehboobaMufti over J&K remark

Kalyan Singh cremated, topleaders attend funeralALIGARH/BULANDSHAHR : Former Uttar Pradesh chief min-ister Kalyan Singh was cremated Monday with senior leaders,party workers and a large number of local people congregatingat Bansi Ghat in Bulandshahr's Narora town for the last rites.Rajveer Singh lit his father's pyre at the funeral attended by sen-ior BJP leaders, including Defence Minister Rajnath Singh,Union Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani andUttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami.The two-time CM, who had also been the Rajasthan Governor,died at a Lucknow hospital on Saturday after spending weeks inthe ICU. A Hindutva icon, Singh was the Uttar Pradesh chiefminister when Kar Sevaks demolished the Babri Masjid in Ayod-hya on December 6, 1992.

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I Satinder Kaur W/o Manjit I , h i t h e r t o K n o w n a s I Jagmit Kaur W/o Jagtar I, Zannat Kaur Hundal D/o I, Shavani Sharma D/O Lalit I Gaganpreet Kaur W/o Sh. I Param j i t s i n g h s / o I,Pritpal Singh Grewal S/o Singh Walia R/o H.no.113 PRADUMAN SINGH Son of Singh R/o Village Jagdev S m t . H a r p r e e t K a u r Sharma R/O H. No. 450, Gali Barinder Singh Gill R/o J a r n a i l s i n g h r / o B a l w i n d e r S i n g h R / o Basant Avenue Amritsar SANTA SINGH residing at Kalan, Tehsil Ajnala Distt R/o.Hno.205, New urban Randev, Vpo. Kahnuwan, Vill. Dharamgarh, P.O. A m a r g a r h T e h . S a h a u l i ( L u d h i a n a ) Have Changed My Name To J11/627, Pati Dadu Jalla Amritsar have change my Estate Ram Tirath Road Dist t . Gurdaspur Have Rattangarh, Teh. Shahabad M a l e r k o t l a D i s t t . Ch an g ed N ame P r i t p a l Satinder Kaur Walia. V i l l a g e S u l t a n w i n d , name to Jagmeet Kaur. Amritsar declare that I Changed My Name To (M.) Distt. Kurukshetra, Sangrur have chang e d S in gh .

900020 Amritsar-143001 Punjab 900020 have Changed my from S h i v a n i S h a r m a . A l l Haryana have changed my my name to Paramj i t 63372I Abhinav S/o Ashwani have changed my name I, Samir S/o Surinder Mohan Zannat to Zannat Kaur Concerned Please Note name from Gaganpreet s ingh Madahar. I ,Prabhdeep Singh S/o Kumar Tack R/o H.no.28-a and Shall hereafter be R/o7, New Garden Colony, Hundal and I want to 72737 Kaur Gill to Gaganpreet 63372 G u r t e j S i n g h R / o Gali No.2 Lawrence Road known as PARDUMAN Majitha Road, Amritsar have delete my father’s name I , Sharnj i t Kaur W/O Kaur. Concerned please I Gurmeet Singh Brar S/o Va l t o h a ( F e r o z e p u r ) Amritsar Have Changed My SINGH. changed my name to Samir from my passport and also K u l d e e p S i n g h R / O note. Ikattar Singh Brar R/o C h a n g e d N a m e Name To Abhinav Tack. 900020 Goel. want to passport with my 128/1243, Gali No 7 Vikas 100046 T h a r a j ( M o g a ) H a v e P r a b h d e e p S i n g h

900020 I, Maninder Singh S/o 900020 s i n g l e p a r e n t n a m e Nagar Hospital Khandwala I h i t h e r t o k n o w n a s Changed My Name As Sandhu.I Tanvi W/o Abhinav Tack Didar Singh R/o V.P.O I, Meenu W/o Samir Goel Harpreet kaur ( Mother as Chheharta Amritsar Have SIMANSHU S/O DEEPAK Gurmeet Singh. 63372R/o H.no.28-a Gali No.2 Wadala Veram, Tehs i l R/o7, New Garden Colony, well as custodian) Changed My Name From KUMAR Residing at Street 63372 I B ipan j i t S ingh S /o Lawrence Road Amritsar Majitha District Amritsar Majitha Road, Amritsar have 72737 Sharnjit Kaur To Sharanjit No. 1, Near Shiv Mandir, I, Gurcharn Singh S/o Gian Sulakhan Singh R/o Vpo Have Changed My Name To have changed my father’s changed my name to. Meenu I , Sarbji t Singh S/o Kaur Please Concerned Jaswal Colony, Kailash Singh R/o H.No. 44 Vpo. Chimna Tehsil Jagraon Tanvi Tack. name From Dedar Singh to Goel. Harnam Singh Vill. Note. Nagar Road, Bajra, District Simbli Teh. Garhshankar D i s t t L u d h i a n a h a v e

900020 Didar Singh. 900020 Bhakna Hari Singh 72737 Ludhiana, Punjab- 141007, Distt. Hoshiarpur have known by both names I, Davinder Kumar S/o 900020 I , h i t h e r t o K n o w n a s Tehsil Ajnala Amritsar I, Kalpana Khot W/o India have changed my c h a n g e d m y n a m e Bipanjit Singh Dhillon Parkash Chand R/o 15-B, I , Kawalj i t Singh S/o AYESHA SHARMA D/o Have Changed my Sarabjit name Shivanand Khot name and shall hereafter be Gurcharan Singh. & Bipanjit SinghMain Bazar, Sri Ram Avenue, Ta r s e m S i n g h R / o A S H W I N I K U M A R Singh R/o.1628, Near Marathi known as SIMANSHU 63372 63372Majitha Road, Amritsar have Mohalla Akbarpura,VPO- SHARMA residing at 443- 72737 Schoo l . Manuch iwad i , FARMAHA. It is certified I , K a r a m j i t K a u r W / o I P a r m j i t S i n g h S / o changed my name from Goindwal Sahib, Tehsil A, Abadi Rakh Shikargah, I Nisha Sharma W/o Vikas C h i k a l w a l , B e l g a u m , that I have complied with Malkit Singh R/o Near Niranjan Singh r.o Vpo Davinder Kumar to Davinder Khadur Sahib, Tarn Taran Dimond Avenue, Majitha Prashar R/o H. No. 81, Kamataka pin- 591237 other legal requirements in Dera Baba Ganga Ram, S idhwan ka lan Tehs i l Kumar Sharma. have changed my name to Road, Amritsar Punjab have Gali No. 9, Pawan Nagar, India declare that I have this connection V i l l a g e H u s n e r , jagraon Distt Ludhiana

900020 Kawaljeet Singh. changed my name and Shall Batala Road, Amritsar Changed my name from 90002 Teh.Gidderbaha (Distt. Sri have Changed My Name I , h i t he r to Known a s 900020 hereafter be known as Have Changed My Name Kalpana Khot To Kalpana I Karamjeet Kaur sidhu M u k t s a r S a h i b ) h a v e To Parmjit Singh SidhuKULWINDER SINGH BRAR I Harinder Pal Singh Gill ASHIMA SHARMA. After Marriage To Nisha. Shivanand Khot. vide W / o G u r i n d e r S i n g h c h a n g e d m y n a m e t o 63372S/o DARSHAN SINGH R/o S/o Raj Singh R/o H.no.37 900020 Al l Concerned P lease affidavit No. AR 925128 R e sidence V.p.o Lehra Karmjit Kaur. I Mona Jain W/o Harish 171, Link Morh Road, Muktsar Gali No.6 Ranjit Vihar I Harpreet Chawla of Sacred Note dated on 23 August 2021 Dhurkot Bathinda have 63372 Goel R/o Block No:08 (Rural), Sri Muktsar Sahib, Loharka Road Amritsar Heart High School Amritsar 72737 best before Notary Public c h a n g e d m y n a m e t o I, Jaswinder Singh Khosa H:No 900 Street No 04 Punjab-152026 have changed Have Changed Name Of 2001 batch have lost my I, Jaspreet Kaur Grewal Amritsar Karamjeet kaur S/o Gurdev Singh Khosa New Model Town Moti my name and Shall hereafter be My Minor Daughter From Tenth passing certificates W / o J a t i n d e r S i n g h 72737 85456 R / o M a c h h i B u g r a ( B a g h J a g r a o n D i s t t known as KULWINDER S a b h r e e n K a u r T o with index num T/843/032 R/o.Village Tur Tarn I R a j d e e p K a u r D / o I Priyanka siwach w/o Ferozepur) changed my Ludhiana Have Changed SINGH. Sabhreen Kaur Gill. irretrievably. Taran have Changed my Harcharn Singh Vpo Doula m a n o j s i w a c h v i l l a g e S o n n a m e f r o m My Name to Mona Goel

900020 900020 900020 name to Jaspreet Kaur Tehsil Gidderbaha Distt Sri s e m a n t e h s i l m e h a m Harsimranjeet Singh to 63372I, Bala W/O Sh.Nanu Ram I CAPTAIN SINGH BATH 72737 M u k t s a r S a h i b H a v e d i s t r i c t r o h t a k h a v e Harsimranjit Singh Khosa. I Manisha Aggarwal W/o R/O Gali No.6, Subash son of BUTA SINGH residing I Monish Mahajan S/O Changed To My Name changed my daughter's 63372 Arun Goel R/o H:No C o l o n y, M u s t a f a b a d , at Vill. Kaurhe PO Ghoman Kewal Krishan R/ Hno-72 Rajdeep Kaur Mann name from chitrakshi to I,Karamveer Kaur wife of 900, Street No 04, Block Verka Bay Pass, Amritsar Tehsil Batala, Gurdaspur Gali No-2 New Jawahar 62647 chitrakshi siwach Bhupinder Singh Sandhu N o : 0 8 , N e w M o d e l P u n j a b I n d i a H a v e have changed my name to N a g a r A m r i t s a r H a v e I Jaspal Singh S/o Hakam 40009 R/o V. Hamad wala uttar, Town Moti Bagh Jagraon changed my name from CAPTAIN SINGH. Changed My Name From Singh Vpo Madhir Tehsil I Mohinder Kaur wife of Dis t t . Ferozepur have D i s t t L u d h i a n a H a v e Bala to Bala Rani. 900020 M o n i s h M a h a j a n To G i d d e r b a h a D i s t t S r i Service No. 2468200P Ex. c h a n g e d m y n a m e t o Changed My Name to

900020 I Surinder Kumar S/o Hakam Monish Kumar Mahajan M u k t s a r S a h i b H a v e Hav Ajaib Singh resident Karmveer Kaur Sandhu. Manisha Goel.I , Shivansh Prabhakar Rai R/o H.no.492 Samadhi All Concerned May Please Changed To My Name of village Bagwanpur , PO: 63372 63372Alias Kumar Prabhakar Road Zira Distt.ferozepur Note Jaspal Singh Brar Bholath , Tehsil: Bholath I ,Sukhdeep S ingh S /o I Bahadur S ingh S /o S/o Vishal Prabhakar, E-1, Have Changed My Name To 72737 62647 D i s t r i c t K a p u r t h a l a , Gurdas Singh R/o Village G u r j a n t S i n g h R / o B h a l l a C o l o n y, N e a r Surinder Kumar Chhabra. I, sudesh Kumar alias S/o I Jaspreet Kaur W/o Jaspal Punjab have changed my Bir Rauke ( Moga) changed Village Dhilwan Kalan P r a b h a k a r S c h o o l , 900020 R a m S a r a n d a s s Singh Brar Vpo Madhir name from MOHINDER my name to Sukhdeep ( F a r i d k o t ) H a v e Chheharta, Amritsar have I , J o r a w a r S i n g h S / o R/o .H.No.33 B Model Tehsil Gidderbaha Distt Sri KAUR to MAHINDER Singh Dhaliwal. Changed my name to c h a n g e d m y n a m e t o Khushpal Singh R/o Village Town Rani Ka Bagh Gali M u k t s a r S a h i b H a v e KAUR vide Affidavit No. 63372 Bahadur Singh Brar.Shivansh Prabhakar. Mohre Wala. P.O Dhira Patra N o . 2 A m r i t s a r h a v e Changed To My Name 454798 dated 23.8.2021 I, Lakhwinder Kaur W/o 63372

900020 Teh and Distt Ferozepur have changed my name sudesh Jaspreet Kaur Brar executed before Ist Class Sukhwinder Singh Nande I , J a s m a i l K a u r W / o changed my name Jorawar kumar alias to Sudesh 62647 Mag i s t r a t e , Bho la th , R / o R a s u l p u r Te h s i l Rajinder Singh R/o VPO Singh Brar. Kumar all note it I Khushmanpreet Kaur D/o D i s t r i c t K a p u r t h a l a , D h a r a m k o t ( M o g a ) Jatana, Tehsi l Khanna

900020 72737 Jaspal Singh Brar Vpo Punjab. c h a n g e d m y n a m e t o ( L u d h i a n a ) h a v e I, Kanwar Preet S/o Madhir Tehsil Gidderbaha 98706 Lakhwinder Kaur Nande. changed my name to D a l j i t S i n g h K o h l i Distt Sri Muktsar Sahib I Sukhminder Singh S/o 63372 Mandeep Kaur.R/o.303/2, Opp. Luvdale Have Changed To My Rajinder Singh village I , Ve e r p a l K a u r W / o 63372School, Loharka Road N a m e K h u s h m a n p r e e t Bhamian tehsil Khamanon Tajinderpal Singh Brar I , Mur t i w/o Sukhra j Amritsar have Changed Kaur Brar District Fatehgarh Sahib R/o Saffuwala ( Moga) S ingh R/o Ladha i ke my name To Kanwar 62647 has changed my Name to c h a n g e d m y n a m e t o (Moga) have changed Preet Singh I, Kulbeer Kaur W/o No. Sukhminder Singh Sandhu. Veerpal Kaur Brar. m y n a m e t o S u k h b i r

72737 9509898 EX. HAV. Hardev All concerns please note. 63372 Kaur .I, Suneeta W/o Satbeer Singh R/o H. No. 195-D, 600021 I, Arjun S/o Sher Bahadur 63372S i n g h S a l u j a Jawala Nagar Maqsudan, I kulwinder kaur w/o R/o 33 KV Colony, Sohian I L o v e p r e e t K a u r R/o.H.No.5500/20 Gali Jalandhar have changed my Sukhminder Singh Sandhu road ( Sangrur) changed Dhi l lon W/O Balv i r N o . 3 , N a w a n K o t name to Kulbir Kaur. village Bhamian tehsil my name to Arjun Singh. Singh Sidhu R/O Mehraj Amritsar have Changed 72778 K h a m a n o n d i s t r i c t 63372 D i s t t B a t h i n d a H a v e my name to Sunita I hither to known as Sohan F a t e h g a r h S a h i b h a s I, Lovejit Kumar Son of Changed My Name To

72737 Singh S/o Dhana Singh R/o c h a n g e d m y n a m e t o Kulwinder Kumar resident Lovepreet Kaur Sidhu.I, Satbeer Singh Saluja Village Jethpur, District Kulwinder kaur Sandhu. o f V P O N a w a n P i n d 63372S / o N a r i n d e r S i n g h Jalandhar, Punjab ,India All concerns please note. Donewal Tehsil Shahkot, I ,Dharam Chand S/O Sh. R/o.H.No.5500/20 Gali have changed my name and 600021 D i s t t J a l a n d h a r. h a v e Farangi Lal R/O Factory N o . 3 , N a w a n K o t he shall hereafter be known I, Navpreet s/o Balwinder change of my name from R o a d , N e a r D u r g a Amritsar have Changed as Sohan Lal Singh r/o Village Bakali, Lovejit Kumar To Lovejeet Mandir Rampura Phul my name to Satbir Singh 72778 T e h s i l L a d w a Kumar. Distt . Bathinda Change

72737 I, hitherto known as Geeta ( K u r u k s h e t r a ) h a v e 63372 Of Name Dharam Chand I Kawal j i t Kaur W/o Rani W/O Munish Maggo changed my name from I , Davinder Kaur W/o GargAmarjit Singh R/o L- R / o H . N o . 5 7 , J a w a l a Navpree t t o Navpree t Gur te j S ingh Sandhu, 633727/1210 Bagichi Lakha Nagar, Maqsudan, Distt. Singh. R/o VPO, Raul i , Tehsi l Singh Tarn Taran Road J a l a n d h a r – 1 4 4 0 0 8 , 52724 & Dist t . Moga, Punjab, Amritsar Have Changed Punjab, India have changed I hitherto known as Sadia India , have changed my My Name Kawaljit Kaur m y n a m e a n d s h a l l W/O Ahmed Ali Residing name to Davinder Kaur To Kanwaljit Kaur. hereafter be known as Anu. at house no 126 Ward no 24 Sandhu.

72737 72778 Bahona Road Preet Nagar 63372I Neha Takker W/O I h i t h e r t o k n o w n a s Moga, Punjab 142001 have I , G u r t e j S i n g h S / o Harminder Singh Takker S I M A R J O T K A U R changed my name and shall Avtar Singh R/o VPO. R/O H.No.87, Gali No.9, GREWAL D/O DALJIT hereafter be known as Raul i , Tehsi l & Dist t . Sahibzada Jujhar Singh SINGH GILL R/O College Salma. It is certified that I Moga , Pun j ab , I nd i a , Av e n u e , L i n k R o a d Ground Road, Backside have complied with other have changed my name Gumtala, Amritsar I Have Geeta Bhawan, Arjana legal requirements in this to Gurtej Singh Sandhu. Changed My Name Neha Estate, Parwana Nagar connection 63372Saini To Neha Takker M o g a , P u n j a b h a v e 90002 I , Ramneek Kaur Gil l

72737 changed my name and shall I Satnam Singh S/o Karam W / o J o b a n j e e t S i n g h hereafterbe known as S i n g h R / o V i l l a g e R/o VPO Sanher Tehsi l LOVELEEN JOT KAUR Mastgarh Tehsil Guhla Z i r a ( F e r o z e p u r ) GILL. D i s t t . K a i t h a l H a v e changed my name af ter

72778 Changed My Name From m a r r i a g e R a m n e e k i Sumandeep kaur Bajwa Satnam Singh Sandhu To Kaur.w/o Satnam Singh r/o Sa tnam S ingh , Fa the r 63372vi l l . Baghoura P.O. Name From Karam Signh I ,Shal inder S ingh S/o Nangal Khurd tehsil Sandhu To Karam Singh g u r c h a r n S i n g h R / o G a r h s h a n k a r D i s t t And Mother Name From # 8 2 4 9 ( O l d 5 4 0 9 ) Hoshiarpur have changed Harjeet Kaur Sandhu To Moha la Te l l i an Wala , my name to Sumandeep Harjeet Kaur . Bathinda have changed kaur 50008 m y m i n o r d a u g h t e r

72778 I, No. 3171928L Ex NK name Aneekjot Kaur to I hi therto Known as, Satya Pal S/o Sh. Diwan Aneekjot Kaur Sahni . SUMAN W/O ASHWANI Singh R/o VPO Badhawar, 63372KUMAR R/O H.NO.57, Tehsil Barwala, Distt. Hisar I Kanta Rani D/o Ram NEW DEOL NAGAR have changed the name of my P a r k a s h V i l l a g e N E A R S . P P R I M E son in army record from Rajan Khatkar Khurd , Tehsi l S R . S E C . S C H O O L , Singh to ROSHAN LAL for all Banga Dist t SBS Nagar J A L A N D H A R 1 4 4 0 0 1 future purposes, vide affidavit Declare that my name is PUNJAB, INDIA. Have 23-08-2021 before Hisar Court. Kanta and my Surname changed my name and shall 40008 is Rani .hereafter be known as I Sukhdeep Singh Mann S/O 63372SUMANJIT KAUR jarnail Singh R/O village I G u r d i p S i n g h S / O

72778 Burj pakka Tehsil Samrala Joginder Singh R/O Gali I Jagdeep Singh S/o Balwant District Ludhiana I Have G u r u d w a r e W a l i Singh R/o Matta (Faridkot) Change My Name Sukhdeep ,Muradpura (Tarn Taran) have changed my name to Singh Mann to Sukhdeep I H a v e C h a n g e d M y Jagdeep Singh Brar. Singh Name As Gurdeep Singh.

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I Parvinder Kaur Sagar Wife Of Late Sh .Gurdeep Singh Sagar, Resident of House no. 3083, Sector 19D Chandigarh Do Hereby D e c l a r e T h a t M y S o n Gurcharan Singh His Wife Prerna Sagar And Their Son Gurinder Singh, They Are Not in My Control So I disowned them from My All Movable and Immovable Assets.

98765I, Suman Lata W/o Late Satish Kumar, R/o #1255, Sector-11, Panchkula (Hry) declare that my son Pawan Kumar Sindhu and his wife Renu are out of my control. So, I Disown them from my m o v a b l e / i m m o v a b l e properties. If, Anybody deals with them shall do their own risk future.

98702I M a l k i t K a u r W / o Gurcharan Singh, Flat No. 137, G.F, Shivjot Enclave, Kharar, Distt SAS Nagar declare that as per my Aadhar Card etc. my date of birth is 01/02/1967 . By overs ights i t has been w r o n g l y e n t e r e d a s 15/02/1967 in the service documents of my husband Gurcharan Singh (Retired Subedar JC-269693 X) The same may be amended.

100071I Parveen w/o Gurdial Ram R/O Vill Gumtala Tehsil Phillaur Distt Jalandhar Pb India declare that my given name is Parveen and my Surname is Kaur.

63372I, Taraki Lal Alias Ravinder Kumar S/o Sanover Lal R/o Payal W/no-4 Tehsil Payal ( Ludhiana) declare that both names are mine. I known by names of Taraki Lal Alias Ravinder Kumar.Above Both names are mine and correct.

63372I, Harbans Singh S/o Bhan Singh Resident of Village Chohla Sahib Tehsil and District TarnTaran declare that my son Arshdeep Singh has passed away some time ago and my daughter-in-law Prabhdeep Kaur W/o Late. Arshdeep Singh is currently living in Australia which is beyond my comprehension. I disown my daughter-in-law Prabhdeep Kaur from my All movable and immovable property. I will not be responsible for any good or bad deeds done by her.

63372I Ram Saroop Singh S/o Gian Chand Village Bairo Kangri PO Lambra Distt Hoshiarpur d e c l a r e t h a t m y s o n Harwinder Singh and his wife Jasvir Kaur are out of my control so I disinherited them from my moveable and immoveable property. I shall n o t b e r e s p o n s i b l e i f anybody dealing with them.

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Problems of peoplewill be heard daily:ParasharDEEPAK SHARMAISMAILABAD: The newly appointedsecretary of the municipality AnkushParashar said that the solution of lanes,street lights, evacuation will be done onpriority basis. Along with this, the prob-lems of the common people will beheard everyday. He was interacting withjournalists after assuming office here.

Ankush Parasharsaid that a newdrinking waterpipeline and sew-erage line is be-ing laid in thestreets. Thestreets wherethis work hasbeen completedwill be rebuilt. Hesaid that the listsof streets would

be prepared through three teams. Hesaid that the problem of frequent shut-down of street lights is going on. Thisproblem will no longer be tolerated.For this the concerned contractors willbe called. He said that the city would belit up with flood lights in a few days.Parashar said that the waterlogged ar-eas due to rain would be observed.Evacuation options will be explored atsuch places. The sewerage operationwill be expedited. The sewerage workwill be inspected daily. On this occa-sion, the new secretary was warmlywelcomed by MC president SanjeevArora. Arora expressed his gratitude toSports Minister Sandeep Singh andsaid that now the condition and direc-tion of the city will change rapidly. Ac-countants Gurnam Singh, DineshSachdeva, Balihar Singh, KuldeepSingh, Vikrant Arora etc. were alsopresent on this occasion.

Anganwadi staffbeing readied forplay school switch

MAINPAL KASHYAPINDRI: According to the directive ofChief Minister Manohar Lal, Anganwadicenters in Haryana will be convertedinto play schools.Under this, training camps of 6 batcheswere organized for the Anganwadiworkers of all the rural and urban areasin the BDPO office in Indri block andthe old age home of Pahera village.Giving information on this occasion, Dr.Rajbala Mor, Women and Child Devel-opment Project Officer, Indri, said thatthis camp will be held from August 23 toSeptember 10. At the camp, training isgiven to all the Anganwadi workers, inwhich they are told about the activitiesrelated to play school in which educa-tion is given to the children before goingto school. Along with this, they are alsobe told how to engage the mothers ofyoung children by taking a parentsmeeting so that they can cooperate inthe educational activities given to thechildren. There will be 3 supervisors astrainers and one batch will be trainedfor 5 days. All the training programs arebeing monitored by the Women andChild Development Project Officer. An-ganwadi workers were present on thisoccasion along with Dr Rajbala Mor,CDPO, Indri, and supervisors Kavita,Mahindra, Santosh, Parul, Suman andMamta.

Counseling atNilokheripolytechnic to starttomorrowDARSHAN SHARMANILOKHERI: Guru Brahmanand Gov-ernment Polytechnic Nilokheri has 600seats for Diploma Engineering and 70seats for Diploma Engineering (LateralEntry). Till date, a total 1120 applica-tions have been received for DiplomaEngineering and total 325 applicationsfor Diploma Engineering (Lateral Entry).The last date to apply for Diploma Engi-neering was August 23 while the lastdate to apply for Diploma Engineering(Lateral Entry) was August 18.Interested students who have appliedcan now apply for counselling. The firstcounseling for Diploma Engineering willbe held from August 27 to September1. The first counseling for Diploma En-gineering (Lateral Entry) will be heldfrom August 25 to 30.The counseling fee is Rs 500 for allcategories of students. The counsel-ing will be done through online modeand this fee will also be paid online.Students can fill their desired subjectand preferred institution during coun-seling. Only those students whose alldocuments have been checked, willbe admitted in the first counseling onthe basis of merit. Students who arenot enrolled in the first counseling cantake part in the second counseling.In this regard, it is informed that Pari-var Pehchan Card is mandatory forthe residents of Haryana to partici-pate in the on-line off-campus coun-seling for all Diploma and Degreecourses for the session 2021-22 asper the instructions of the Govern-ment. It is advised that all the stake-holders/registered candidates shouldvisit the CSC centers to generatetheir Parivar Pehchan Patra (PPP ID).Students should ensure that the nameof the candidate is mentioned in therespective PPP ID for participating inthe centralized counseling of HSTES.This information was given by the in-charge of admission, ParitoshParashar.

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Paramvir Singh enters Guinness Book of Records SHIV KUMAR SHARMAKARNAL: Paramvir singh from karnal brought fame to the city after Worldbook of Records registered his name in their books for organizing thelongest webinar ever. Paramvir, 17 is a 12th class student from St. Theresa'sConvent School Karnal. He organised a webinar against drug and childabuse on 8th August. 247 children aged 12-18 years from 20 different statesof the country participated in this webinar which lasted 21 hours 52 minutes.The webinar was a part of Paramvir's campaign `Speak Up Friends’ whichaims to create awareness against the menaces of drug and child abuse inthe society. The campaign received overwhelming support from people across the country, as itgained 10,000 followers just within a month.

BUREAU CHANDIGARH, AUGUST 23:

Haryana Education Minister, Sh. Kan-war Pal said that the State Govern-ment is committed to provide employ-ment through transparency in the re-cruitment system of the state. He saidthis while responding to a questionduring the monsoon session ofHaryana Vidhan Sabha.

He said that since the formation ofthe State Government in the year2019, a total of 12,016 posts forGroup A, B, C were recruited by thegovernment through Haryana StaffSelection Commission and HaryanaPublic Service Commission.

The Education Minister said thatduring this period, 10,576 posts wererecruited by the Haryana Staff Selec-tion Commission and 1,440 by theHaryana Public Service Commission.

He also presented comparativefigures of employment given by thegovernment through Haryana StaffSelection Commission and Haryana

Public Service Commission. He saidthat during the year 2005 to 2009,18,020 jobs were provided byHaryana Staff Selection Commissionand 988 by Haryana Public ServiceCommission.

He informed that during the year2014 to 2019, recruitments were madeagainst 66,427 posts by Haryana StaffSelection Commission while recruit-ments were made against 3,446 postsby Haryana Public Service Commis-sion.

SHIV KUMAR SHARMAJIND, AUGUST 22

National level kickboxing championshipis being organized by WAKO India Kick-boxing Federation in Goa for which SurajRohilla Rajput has also been selected.Suraj Rohilla informed that a national lev-el Championship will be organized in Goafrom 26 to 29 August in which about 1500players from all over India will show theirzeal and enthusiasm. Suraj is currently do-ing his practice at Kickboxing AcademyJind under the supervision of Coach Mr.Naveen Sihag.Suraj's father Mr. RajeshRohilla and mother Mrs. Suman Devi saysthat we are proud of our son's achieve-

ments and we are confident that Suraj willwin with better performance. Suraj Rohillatold that the players who get the goldmedal in Goa will be selected for the In-ternational Asian Kickboxing champi-onship to be held in Thailand from 10 to20 March 2022 and said that I am veryhappy that I am selected for the Goa Na-tional level kickboxing championship. Forwhich I am working hard and playing thegame in the spirit of the game, will do mybest.Let us inform that Suraj has alreadywon many medals in many state levelChampionship's and three national levelChampionship's (Delhi, Mumbai and Ro-htak) and has brought laurels to the state ofHaryana including Jind district.

Bhatia reprimands XEN,contractor for poor work

ASHOK GUPTAPANIPAT, AUGUST 23

The movement of the Go-hana Road Welfare Associ-ation continued today. Thepotholes on both the sidesof Gohana road have notbeen filled yet. After meet-ing the MLA repeatedly, the people of the Market Associationmet Sanjay Bhatia this morning. Sanjay Bhatia assured that hewould come to the spot today itself. Bhatia was accompanied byPWD XEN Ajit and contractor Mandeep. Sanjay Bhatia told thecontractor that today as soon as possible the pit should be filledand this action should start from today itself. Expressing his anger,industrialist and head of Agrawal Samaj, Ram Niwas Gupta saidthat the contractor's men are taking money from people and notdoing anything. Lalit Goyal, head of PWD Gohana Road WelfareAssociation, said that we will wait for 2 days, and if the pits arenot filled by then, the road will be blocked. On the occasionRamkumar, Dr. Raj Raman, Dr. Pratap Malik, Dinesh BansalLucky, Sunil Kansal, Ashok Chhabra, Shyam Lal Garg, Anil Mit-tal, Krishna Vivek Sharma, Shivam Bansal, Ajay Khurana, AnilBansal, Ankit Garg, Ankur Jain, Balraj Jindal, Bobby Jain, JagdishPhogat, Jogiram Manish Goel, Naresh Bansal, Naveen Garg,Pawan Bansal, Ramit Rohit Rajgir, Sandeep Singla, Sonu Garg,Vicky Mittal, Vivek Sharma etc. were also present.

BJP gears up for civic bodies,panchayat pollsR R SHELLYKARNAL: A round ofmeetings has startedregarding the prepa-rations for the elec-tions of the civic bod-ies and panchayats.In this regard, a state-level meeting of BJPis being organized inKarnal on August 28, in which apart from the BJP top leader-ship, 6 Lok Sabha MPs from Haryana and the candidates whohave contested the assembly elections in these six Lok Sabhaconstituencies, MLAs of 12 districts, other Rajya Sabha MPs,district presidents and district in-charge, local election bodycommittee members will be present. Regarding this topic andits preparations, a meeting was organized under the chairman-ship of District President Yogendra Rana at the BJP office locat-ed on Railway Road today, in which all the divisional presidentsof all the fronts and the district were present. Divulging this, Yo-gendra Rana said that elections are to be held soon for Panch-Sarpanches of 22 Zilla Parishads, 142 Block Committees and6205 Panchayats in Haryana. In this, 416 members of ZillaParishads, 3002 members of Block Committees and 6205 Pan-chayats for Sarpanches, for which all the workers have to beprepared. Everyone was given responsibility regarding the suc-cess of the program by the District President. In this meeting,District President Yogendra Rana along with District Vice Presi-dent Mukesh Arora, District General Secretary Rajbir Sharma,Sunil Goyal, District Media Head Dr. Ashok Kumar, CoordinatorHarpal Kalampura, District IT Chief Vikas Kathuria, SecretaryJoginder Valmiki, Morcha Presidents Narendra Gaursi etc.

Elite Mining Corporationplants saplings

NIRMAL SAINIRADAUR, AUG 23

Elite Mining Corpora-tion B-17, which ismining at GumthalaRao Ghat in YamunaRiver, has given amessage to keep theearth green by plant-ing hundreds of fruit-ful, shady, ornamentalplants in GovernmentSchool and Cremato-rium at GumthalaRao. Kamal Shuklaand Vipin Sharma presided over the programme. Kamal Shukla and Vipin Sharma said that the problem of global warming is increasing due to the decreasingnumber of trees due to which the temperature of the earth isincreasing.

The rising temperature can be reduced with the help ofplantation as trees provide shade. On the other hand, timber isalso obtained from trees. That's why we all have to plant moreand more plants and also take care of the plants we have plant-ed. Let us all take a pledge to keep the earth green by plantingsaplings on special occasions of our lives.

NIRMAL SAINIRADAUR, AUGUST 23

On the lines of Aadhar cardand family identity card, nowunique ID cards of unorgan-ised workers will be made allover the country. The Min-istry of Labour and Employ-ment will launch the schemeon August 25. Unique IDgeneration will be done atCSC centers. CAC DistrictManager Naveen Dutta in-formed that free registrationand cards will be made forthe unorganised workers. Af-ter updating, you will have topay Rs 20. Applicant's ageshould be between 16 to 59years for registration. At thesame time, the applicantshould not have a PF and ESIaccount. The applicantshould also not be a memberof any organised group or or-ganisation. About 600 VLEsin the district will providetheir services in this work.On making a unique ID card,the worker will get the bene- fit of various schemes given by the government.

Dr. Rana takes over asPresident of NIMA

JASWINDER SHARMAKARNAL: Dr. Ashwani Rana, the newlyelected President of NIMA, National Inte-grated Medical Association Karnal, tookcharge of the newly elected executive of thedistrict. In the same way, in future under thesupervision of Dr. Ashwani Rana, the day isnot far when there will be fourfold progress.Dr. Ashwani Rana was taken over by the ex-ecutive team by giving me a memento. Dr.Ashwani Rana talked about his team.Deputy Principal Dr. Sanjay Kumar, Secre-tary Dr. Suresh Pant, Treasurer Dr. KomalParuthi, Co-Secretary Dr. Narmata Sharmatook a vow to take NIMA forward by workingtogether with all of them. President ofNEEM, Dr. Ashwini Rana said that whateveris possible for the interests of AYUSH doc-tors, they will continue to make every effortfor it. NIMA has been cooperating in everyway in all the programmes run by the gov-ernment for the general public and will con-tinue to do so. On this occasion 100 peoplefrom the entire district including Dr. Man-jusha Khurana, Dr. DR Puri, Dr. RajinderGupta, Dr. Dinesh Goud, Dr. Shobha Goud,Dr. Anju Paruthi, Dr. Narendra Malik, Dr.Pradeep Garg, Dr. Minocha, Dr. SubhashLuthra, Dr. Anand Goyal were present.

MAINPAL KASHYAPINDRI, AUG 23

On the way towards Yamunanear Garhpur ‘island’, theroad has been completely sep-arated from the bridge overthe Dhanora Escape, due towhich the farmers of six vil-lages falling on this path haveto weather a lot of difficulty inreaching their fields.

Angered by this, the villagers gath-ered on the bridge on Monday anddemonstrated and demanded that thebridge be repaired. Villagers Sanjeev Ku-mar, Praveen Kumar, Dalbir Numberdar,Praveen, Jagtar, Jaynarayan, Ravidat,Ravindra, Khalid, Ashok Kumar, ManojJora, Sarpanch Suresh Kumar, etc. saidthat due to the breakdown of the bridge,people had to cross the road by takingrisk.

Due to the low level of the bridge, wa-ter collects on this bridge during the rainy

season, due to which this bridge is not vis-ible at all. Due to which there is a possi-bility of accident happening any timesoon. The villagers also said that the farm-ers of villages on this road have about2000 acres of land on which they cultivatecrops. In such a situation, due to the con-dition of the bridge here, it is not possibleto go to the fields to look after their crops.

Not only this, the farmers say whenthe paddy will be ready to be harvested inthe coming days, they will not be able tobring combine to their fields.

Villagers hold protest,want bridge rebuilt

Unorganised workers willget ID cards :Naveen

Right to Service Commissionerholds workshop

R R SHELLYKARNAL, AUGUST 23

Haryana Right to ServiceCommission’s ChiefCommissioner TC Guptasaid that Chief MinisterManohar Lal would startthe auto appeal from Sep-tember 1 to ensure that allthe people of the state getthe benefits of services ontime. After this launch, Haryana will become the first state inthe country, where the public will get the benefit of auto ap-peal for availing the services. He said that the number of serv-ices provided under the Right to Service Act would be in-creased from 551 to 1000.

TC Gupta was reviewing the services provided under theRight to Service Act at Dr. Mangalsain Auditorium in Karnalon Monday. He said that every officer and employee will haveto be aware of this to ensure that every citizen gets the benefitof services at the stipulated time. If any officer refuses to pro-vide service on time, then a provision has been made in the Actto impose a fine of up to 20 thousand rupees. He said thatwhile recommending the State Government to bring 53 serv-ices being provided by Haryana Urban Development Author-ity into essential services, he said that at present 16 serviceshave been notified by HSVP. The commission has recom-mended notifying all these services.

Govt committed to provide employmentthrough transparency: Kanwar Pal

SHIV KUMAR SHARMAKARNAL, AUG 23

A successful Shaan-e-Karnal program wasorganized on behalf of District Tax-Bar Kar-nal at Jewels Hotel here on Monday. BarCouncil Punjab and Haryana Chairman Ad-vocate Minderjit Yadav, Vice-Chairman Ad-vocate Raj Kumar Chauhan, AdvocateBhupinder Singh Rathore and other BarCouncil members were present in the pro-gramme. On this occasion, four advocatesof Tax Bar, Lovelesh Gupta, J.K. Jain, AvtarSingh Nagpal and Satpal Arya were honoredwith the title of Shan-e-Karnal. On this oc-casion, Bar Council Punjab and HaryanaChairman Advocate Minderjit Yadav, Vice-Chairman Advocate Raj Kumar Chauhan,Advocate Bhupinder Singh Rathore and oth-er members of Bar Council, Senior AdvocateParvesh Sharma, Preetpal Singh Bedi, SushilBhushan Gupta, Naresh Gupta and ManojMital were also honored for their services. Onthis occasion, District Bar honored AdvocateKamal Dhingra for his appointment as Co-opted Member of Bar Council of Punjab andHaryana. Chief Guest and Chairman of BarCouncil has announced a grant of Rs 1 lakh toDTBA and along with it a GST Seminar has

also been announced to be organized nextmonth with the funds of Bar Council. Alongwith this, District Tax Bar Association, Kar-nal, was given the best bar award for the year2020-21 out of 168 bars of Punjab andHaryana by the Bar Council Chairman. Onthis occasion, Advocate Navneet Arora, Sec-retary, District Tax-Bar, placed some GST re-lated problems and other problems of his ad-vocates before the officials of Bar CouncilPunjab and Haryana. Chairman Minderjit Ya-dav assured Karnal District Tax Bar of his fullcooperation in future. On this occasion, Dis-trict Tax Bar Karnal President Sanjay Puri,Vice President Sandeep Garg, SecretaryNavneet Arora, Co-Secretary Lalit Kumarand Treasurer Hemant Arora thanked all themembers present there.

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Farmers appeal to cancel mining auction R K KASHYAPCHHACHHARAULI: Regional farmers and villagershave appealed to the government to cancel the auc-tion of the mining block after the mining department inTajewala invited applications for mining by making amining block. Rural Vinod Mehta, former SarpanchTajewala, Baili Ram Chowkidar, Yunus Ali alias Nusi,Nand Swaroop, Kashmira, Furkan, Mawasi Ram,Parvez etc. wrote letters to apprise the administrationabout the problems being faced by them. The villagers said in a written letter to the admin-istration that due to the construction of mining blocks in Tajewala, Hathnikund Barrage,Wildlife Sanctuary, National Park, other projects of Irrigation Department as well as variousongoing projects of Hydel Department may suffer.The future of a population of thousands adjoining the mining block may also be bleak. Re-gional farmers are afraid of getting their land in the hands of the mining mafia due to be-coming a mining john.

Vaccine must to prevent 3rd Corona wave : Dr. AnandAKHIL NATHSONEPAT: Dr. Anand Agarwal, Professor and Head of Departmentof Respiratory Medicine and Clinical Incharge of Kovid-19, BPSWomen's Medical College Khanpur Kalan, has given special empha-sis on vaccination to prevent coronavirus. He said that vaccination isalso necessary from the point of view of prevention of possible thirdwave. Therefore, people should definitely get the vaccine by stayingaway from all kinds of rumours. Dr. Anand Aggarwal said that weshould take full care now, so that the control that has been imposedon Corona can be maintained. Especially for the next three weeks,we should avoid any kind of carelessness. Vaccination is necessaryto put an end to the possibilities of plus variants of Corona. It is stillseen that there is an atmosphere of insecurity and rumors about the vaccine among somepeople. But the vaccine is completely safe, with no side effects. Those who get the vac-cine may complain of infection, but the chances of death are stopped. Covid-19 Clinical In-charge Dr. Aggarwal said that to prevent the spread of coronavirus infection, we should notbe a part of an unnecessary crowd. While leaving the house, the compliance of mask andsocial distancing should be done sincerely.

Assy passesobituary referencesCHANDIGARH: Obituary referenceswere passed to pay rich tributes to for-mer Rajasthan Governor Kalyan Singhand martyr Sepoy MohammadAzharuddin during the ongoing Mon-soon Session of Haryana Vidhan Sab-ha.The House conveyed it's heartfelt con-dolences to the members of the be-reaved families.Chief Minister and Leader of the HouseManohar Lal Khattar firstly read out theobituary resolutions, later Vidhan Sab-ha Speaker Gian Chand Gupta readout the obituary resolutions and paidtributes to the departed souls. Leaderof Opposition Bhupinder Singh Hoodaalso read out the obituary resolutionson behalf of his party.While reading the obituary resolution,Mr Khattar said that the House ex-presses deep condolences on the saddemise of former Rajasthan GovernorKalyan Singh on August 21, 2021.

Suraj Rohilla Rajput selected for WAKO IndiaNational Kickboxing championship Goa

These people can registerSmall farmers, cattle ranchers, agricultural laborers, brick kiln work-ers, fish sellers, cobblers, housewives, street vendors, newspapervendors, carpenters, plumbers, rickshaw and aunt rickshaw opera-tors , NREGA workers, milk vendors, transferred labour, barbers,such workers who are not associated with any organization can allget themselves registered. For registration, the applicant must havean Aadhaar card number, photocopy of bank passbook and mobilephone number. Registration will not be possible without these docu-ments. Beneficiaries: CSC District Manager Naveet Dutta said thatthis scheme has been started for the unorganised workers. Thereare about 437 crore unorganised workers working in various sectorsacross the country. Unorganised workers will get the benefit of Prad-han Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana as soon as the unique ID card ismade.

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Judo Championship heldABOHAR (RAJ SADOSH ): The Open Judo Championship was organized by the SurinderJakhar Trust in association with the District Judo Association here. Trustee Jaiveer Jakhar and

Mayor Vimal Thatai were the chief guests,Suryakant Rinwa, president of Sahitya Sadan waspresent as the special guest. As many as 150 play-ers from about 10 teams participated in this com-petition. Teams from Judo Coaching Center Abo-har, Government Senior Secondary School Ram-sara, Fazilka, Gidderanwali, Dutaranwali, Srigan-ganagar, Raman Martial Arts Club, and AdharshilaSchool etc participated in this competition. Jaiveer

Jakhar said that sports are a better option to keep youth away from drugs.

GAURAV GOELCHANDIGARH, AUG 23

Taking serious note of the reports ofoutbreak of foot-and-mouth diseasein some districts of the state, thePunjab Animal Husbandry Depart-ment had immediately deployedteams of veterinarians and doctorsin the affected districts and the ringvaccination of 100 per cent live-stock within a radius of 5 to 10 kmof the affected villages has beencompleted.

Disclosing this here today Tri-pat Rajinder Singh Bajwa, Ministerfor Animal Husbandry said that asper the reports, some animals inLudhiana, Moga and Muktsar Sahibdistricts of Punjab have contractedfoot and mouth disease. He saidthat the government has taken im-mediate action to distribute thedosage of foot and mouth disease toall the affected districts.

He said that for prevention offoot and mouth disease 81 thousanddoses were distributed to the affect-ed districts for ring vaccination.Mr. Bajwa said that he was person-ally collecting daily reports fromthe affected districts. Disclosingfurther Mr. Bajwa said that themouth-to-mouth immunization pro-gram in the state was being imple-mented by the Central Government

under NADCP scheme. He said thatunder the scheme foot and mouthvaccine is given by the CentralGovernment in the state. He saidthat under this scheme vaccinationwas started in the state on October17, 2020 under which all the live-stock of the state were to be vacci-nated.

He said that due to some rea-sons, the vaccine could not meet theprescribed standards due to failureof foot and mouth vaccine samplesand the vaccine was withdrawn bythe Animal Husbandry Departmentof the Central Government and itwas said that the new vaccine willbe re-supplied only after the avail-ability of the vaccine.

Tripat Rajinder Singh Bajwasaid that the Animal Husbandry De-partment of Punjab was in constant

touch with the Central Governmentand they hoped that the foot andmouth vaccine would be availableby September. Mr. Bajwa said that

as soon as the department gets thevaccine from the central govern-ment this vaccine would be given toall the livestock of the state.

Teams of doctors deployed in districts affected byfoot-and-mouth disease in animals: Tripat Bajwa

Sidhu summons his advisorsover their comments on

Kashmir, PakCHANDIGARH, AUG 23

Punjab Pradesh CongressCommittee (PPCC) presi-dent Navjot Singh Sidhu onMonday summoned his twonewly appointed advisors tohis residence in Patiala overtheir comments on Kashmir,Pakistan and the controver-sial sketch of former primeminister Indira Gandhi.

The PPCC presidentsummoned his advisors Mal-winder Singh Mali and PyareLal Garg to discuss their re-cent statements on sensitivenational issues like Kashmirand Pakistan and also thecontroversial sketch of Indi-ra Gandhi that Mali had post-ed on social media.

On Sunday, Punjab ChiefMinister Capt AmarinderSingh had taken strong ex-ception to their statementsand warned against suchatrocious and ill-conceivedcomments. He urged Sidhu’s

advisors to stick to giving ad-vice to the PPCC presidentand not speak on matters ofwhich they clearly had littleor no knowledge, and had nounderstanding of the impli-cations of their comments.Chief Minister urged NavjotSingh Sidhu to rein in his ad-visors before they end up do-ing more damage to India’sinterests. Opposition partieslike the BJP, Shiromani AkaliDal and AAP had hit out atthe ruling Congress party inPunjab over their recent remarks.

DLSA , Kapurthalacelebrates InternationalSenior Citizen's Day

PAWAN KALIAKAPURTHALA: As per action plansent by of Punjab State LegalService Authority, SAS Nagar,DLSA, Kapurthala, led by AmrenderSingh Grewal, District and SessionsJudge-cum-Chairman, celebratedInternational Senior Citizen's Day inthe premises of court complex. Onthis occasion Mahesh KumarSharma, Chief Judicial Magistrate-cum-Secretary, District LegalServices Authority, Kapurthala,interacted with the elders andapprised them about the SeniorCitizens Act. Sharma briefed themthat if an elderly person has givenhis property to someone after29.12.2007 through transfer deedetc. on the condition that he will takecare of the elderly person, but laterrefrains from taking care of thebeneficiary elderly person, then thatold person will may take back hissaid property under theMaintenance and Welfare ofParents and Senior Citizens Act,2007. For this, an application has tobe submitted to the MaintenanceTribunal (SDM Office).

BBSB celebrates Rakhi

SUKH NAHAR JAGRAON: BBSB convent schoolcelebrated the festival of RakshaBandhan with great zeal and zest.School held an activity for studentsof nursery to UKG in which theymade Rakhis by themselves underthe assistance of their teachers andused their creativity to the fullest.School principal Anita Kumariappreciated the students for theirefforts and said that such activitieshelp bring out creativity of childrenand also help them learn a lot aboutour culture. She further said thatschool will continue holding suchcelebrations in future as wellbecause students get to learn a lotthrough these festivities and it keepsthem connected to their roots. Theschool management wishedeverybody on Raksha Bandhan.

Rotary Club Ahmedgarhcelebrates ‘Mela DhiyanDaa’Teej Festival

MAHAVIR GOYALAHMEDGARH: Rotary ClubAhmedgarh led by President AjayJain, Secretary Bipan Sethi, andRtn. Insaf Singh Lehra, the Teejfestival "MELA DHIYAN DAA" wascelebrated with great vivacity andfanfare in the village Lehra alongwith the villagers. Ajay JainPresident of Rotary ClubAhmedgarh participated in the eventas the Chief Guest.The families andresidents of village Lehra captivatedeveryone by presenting a colorfulprogram on this occasion andenjoyed the program very much.On this occasion, President AjayJain informed that Rotary ClubAhmedgarh is playing a key andvital role in the field of socialservice. On behalf of the residentsof village Lehra, Rotary memberInsaf Singh Lehra said that themembers of Rotary Club have givena very golden look to this programby joining this program in villageLehra. He highly praised the RotaryClub and all the members of theRotary Club and said that all thework done by the Rotary ClubAhmedgarh during the Coronaperiod has made the club veryfamous. Secretary Bipan Sethi alsoencouraged by committing thatRotary Club Ahmedgarh willcontinue to support the needypeople of the society in the comingtime in the social service works bygoing ahead in the same manner incollaboration with the districtadministration and grampanchayats.

SUMER GARGSANGRUR, AUG 23

To celebrate National De-worming Day (NDD), ameeting under the chair-manship of AdditionalDeputy Commissioner,Sangrur, Anmol SinghDhaliwal and under the di-rections of Civil Sur-geon(CS), Sangrur Dr. An-jana Gupta was held.

Among the officials ofmany other departmentsthe meeting was speciallyattended by the Districteducation Officer (Prima-ry & Secondary); Districtprogram Officer Incharge,ICDS Sangrur and Districtdevelopment & PanchayatOfficer, Sangrur.

Dr. Vineet Nagpal,DIO Sangrur and Dr.Amanjot Kaur informedthe attendants, "like everyyear this year NDD is to

be celebrated at the Na-tional level on 25th Au-gust 2021 and 1st Septem-ber 2021 has been fixed asits mopup day. Doctorssaid, "On 25th August2021 all the children fromone year to 19 years of agewhether they are studyingin school or school dropouts for any reason to be

given pills". They said thatthis pill (Tab. Albendazole400mg) is firstly to bechewed and then swal-lowed with water. Ex-plaining the benefits oftaking pills, they said thatafter taking pills, manydiseases like anemia, malnutrition etc. can beavoided.

Officers organise meeting to celebrate NDD

SUKH NAHAR JAGRAON, AUG 23

Blossoms convent school cel-ebrated the festival of RakshaBandhan with the students ofjunior wing. Tiny tots learnedto make Rakhi from wastematerial. Students used theircreativity to make beautifuland creative Rakhis fromwaste material.

The teachers informedthem about the history of fes-tival Rakha Bandhan and theimportance of pious festival.School principal Dr. Amarjeet

Kaur Naaz appreciated thestudents and praised them fortheir creativity. She said thatstudents participated in theactivity enthusiastically. Shefurther said that celebratingfestivals with classmatesbuild friendship and unityamong students and theylearn to respect every religionequally.

She also mentioned thatthe education institutionshold the duty to inform stu-dents regarding such festivalsas they form an importantpart of our culture.

Tiny tots of Blossoms celebrateRaksha Bandhan

CHET RAM RATTANNAWANSHAHR, AUG 23

Deputy Commissioner-cum-District Election Offi-cer Shaheed Bhagat SinghNagar held a meeting withthe representatives of polit-ical parties regarding therationalization of pollingbooths in the district.

Meanwhile, she said thataccording to the instruc-tions of the Election Com-mission of India, the num-ber of voters at one pollingstation would be kept at1200, according to which22 new polling stations arebeing set up in the district.Polling booths will be in-creased from 592 to 614.She said that with the in-

crease of 4 polling stations,the number of polling sta-tions in the district wouldincrease from 428 to432.DC said that 4 newpolling stations are beingset up in Banga assemblyconstituency, 11 in Nawan-shahr and 7 in Balachaur.Similarly, one space is in-creasing in the assemblyconstituency Balachaur 3and Banga. While handingover the list of new boothsand locations, she appealedto the representatives of po-litical parties to give theirobjections or suggestions inwriting regarding rationali-zation of polling stationswithin a week so that thesuggestions received couldbe implemented.

There to be 22 new pollingstations in district: DC

VERMAQADIAN, AUG 23

During the free distribution oftricycle camp organized byBharat Vikas Parishad, MLAFatehjung Singh Bajwa pre-sented an amount of Rs50000 to Navdeep Kaur, whostood first in the national lev-el weight lifting champi-onship.

Speaking on the occasion,District Collector GurdaspurJanab Mohammad Ishfaq andMLA Fatehjung Singh Bajwasaid that they are alwaysready to help good sportsper-sons and needy students inter-ested in studies. They saidthat Navdeep Kaur has wongold medal at the nationallevel and has won manymatches in the past as well.For this achievement, anamount of 50 thousand has al-

ready been presented to herby the district administrationand assurance has been givento build her house. On thisoccasion, Bajwa also moti-vated the other students pres-ent in the pandal to work hardand move ahead in life. Hesaid that the Punjab govern-ment and administration is al-ways with them, so withoutany hesitation, they should beengaged in their work and ad-ministration will stand by

them. On this occasion, be-sides SDM Batala BalwinderSingh, India BVP PresidentMukesh Verma, Finance Sec-retary Pawan Kumar, GeneralSecretary Jasbir Singh Samra,Councilor Ratandeep Singh,Councilor Chaudhary AbdulVase Deepak Ladda RajbirSingh , Kanwar Pratap SinghBajwa, National AwardeeManohar Lal Sharma , Shali-ni Sharma, Babita Khosla etc.were present.

Bajwa presents 50 thousand to NavdeepKaur, who won gold medal at national level

SSP Harmanbir Singh Gill pays homageto Shaheed-e-Azam at Khatkar Kalan

BANGA (JAGDIISH LAL KALSI): The new SSPof Shaheed Bhagat Singh NagarHarmanbir SinghGill today paid homage to Shaheed-e-Azam atKhatkar Kalan. Devoted to the memory of BhagatSingh. Paying homage to the martyrs on the occasion,

he said that he was fortunateto be honored to pay homageto Shaheed-e-Azam. There isan opportunity to serve inBhagat Singh's native district.He said that Shaheed-e-AzamS. Bhagat Singh's sacrifice is asource of inspiration for usand he is our role model eventoday. He said that he prom-ised in this holy land that hewould spare no effort to en-sure the safety of the people ofthe district and maintain lawand order. He said that provid-ing transparent police admin-istration to the people of the

district would be his top priority. It is noteworthy thatthe newly-appointed S. S. P Harmanbir Singh Gillwas S P Moga and Regional Passport Officer Ja-landhar have rendered excellent services.

Joginder Singh Jaga, Zila Parishad Member from Singo Mandi Zone along with his colleagues meeting Panchayat Minister Tripat Inderjit Singh Bajwa and MLA Pritam Singh.

On this occasion, Shamsher Singh, Raja Singh, Gurmail Singh, Randhir Singh, All ZilaParishad members, and Manjit Singh Sarpanch etc. were present. (Photo by: Prince Garg)

HEMANT SHARMARAMPURA PHUL, AUG 23

As per the orders of DeputyCommissioner Bathinda B.Srinivasan and Civil SurgeonBathinda Dr. Tejwant SinghDhillon, Sub-Division Magis-trate Rampura Phul NavdeepKumar and Senior MedicalOfficer Bhagata Bhai Ka Dr.Rajpal Singh at GovernmentElementary School and Gov-ernment Senior SecondarySchool took RTPCR Coronaof students and teachers of dif-ferent classes and sent for test-ing through the appropriatesystem by sampling , Multi-

purpose Health SupervisorBalvir Singh Sandhu Kalan,Dr. Renu Bala of RBSK,CHO Manpreet Kaur, Multi-purpose Health WorkerBaldev Singh, GurbinderSingh, Indrajit Kaur, AshaWorker Kulwinder Kaur, RaniKaur, Corona samples of stu-dents and teachers were madeby teams like Davinder Singh.The campaign aims to proper-ly treat and raise awareness ofcorona positive cases from so-ciety by identifying coronapositive cases from society,said Balvir Singh SandhuKalan, a multipurpose healthsupervisor.

Corona sampling atSchool village taken

ANIL VERMABATHINDA, AUG 23

Two-day International Confer-ence on “Emerging Technolo-gies for Computing, Communi-cation and Smart Cities(ETCCS-2021) organised byBaba Farid college of Engi-neering and Technology,Bathinda in technical collabora-tion with Springer (a GlobalPublishing Company) initiatedsuccessfully.

The main objective of theconference was to provide in-ternational platform to share thenew advancements and innova-tions in the Artificial Intelli-gence (AI), Wireless Networks,Security and Internet of Every-thing (IoE). The Chief Guest ofthe inaugural function of theconference was Dr. Anil D. Sa-

hasrabudhe, Chairman,AICTE, New Delhi and theKeynote speaker of event wasDr. Sachin K. Mangla, Univer-sity of Plymouth, United King-dom. This International confer-ence is sponsored by Ministryof Electronic and InformationTechnology (MeitY), All IndiaCouncil for Technical Educa-tion (AICTE) and Council of

Scientific & Industrial Re-search (CSIR), New Delhi. DrPardeep Kaura, Deputy Direc-tor Academics, BFGI wel-comed chief guest and otherdignitaries during the inauguralceremony of the conference.He further added that confer-ence will provide an insight into wide spectrum of emergingtechnologies and congratulated

BFCETfor organizing this con-ference and appreciated the par-ticipants. Dr. Nimisha Singh,Dean Trainings, BFCET intro-duced the conference speakerswhile Dr Jayoti Bansal, Princi-pal BFCET, briefed the audi-ence about the conference andsaid this conference provided aspectrum of opportunity toshare new concepts amongstthe technologist, industrialists,researchers and students (fromresearch areas of AI, WirelessNetworks, Security and IoE).The five tracks of this confer-ence covered the latest tech-nologies being used worldwidein 21st century and Industry4.0. chief Guest of the inaugu-ral function, Dr. Anil D. Sa-hasrabudhe, Chairman,AICTE, New Delhi shared hisidea on innovation.

BFCET holds 2-day Intel conference on emergingtechnologies for computing, communication

16k saplings to be plantedin Jalandhar today

JALANDHAR (BUNNY SODHI): As many as 16140 saplings wouldbe planted across the district on August 24, on the occasion of Van Ma-hotsav, which would be presided over by Chief Minister CaptainAmarinder Singh at a state level function in Mohali, said Deputy Com-missioner Ghanshyam Thori. Divulging the details, the Deputy Com-missioner said that while the Chief Minister would launch the megaplantation drive during the state level events, the similar drives wouldbe started in the districts simultaneously. He added that the forest de-partment has selected 30 locations in the district, where over 16 thou-sands saplings would be planted in a single day. These places includedvillage Muthada Kalan, Phillaur City, Goraya, Punjab Police Academy,Phillaur, Civil Hospital Phillaur, DAV Public School Phillaur, PoliceStation Noormahal, Noormahal City, KV-II, KV-III, village Jodhe, Ei-dgah, Urban Estate Phase-1 and Dhina, CRPF campus, Military Area Ja-landhar Cantt, Jalandhar City, 91 Sub Area, ITBP, School & Parks, PAPGround, Opposite DAV College Jalandhar, NIT campus, Adampur, Ja-landhar City, Bhogpur, Jalandhar, Sinjh Ground, and Birpind Sidhwastation. The DC said that this drive would be carried out with the helpof local NGOs and government establishment wherein plantation willtake place at their respective premises. Underlining the need to plantmore trees to make Jalandhar clean, green and pollution free, the DCsaid that it was the need of hour to check the environmental pollution inthe county. He asked the people to come forward to make this plantationdrive a grand success as this gigantic task could not be accomplishedwithout their active support and participation.

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YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 2021

BJP's Jan Ashirwad Yatra invitation for thirdwave of Covid: CongressPANKAJ BHARATIYAHAMIRPUR: Himachal Pradesh Congress unit on Monday claimed the 'JanAshirwad Yatra' being carried out by a number of Union Ministers in various stateswas an ''invitation for third wave of Covid-19. Congress spokesperson NareshThakur said restrictions were being imposed on the general public of HimachalPradesh as per corona protocols but the ministers and MLAs of the state BJPgovernment were joining the rallies without wearing masks. He alleged that therestrictions were only for the general public and demanded action against all BJPleaders who were violating the COVID-19 norms during their rallies. HimachalPradesh is slated to go for assembly polls in 2022.

HIMACHAL/JKCovid vaccine at 40centers in Una today

JYOTI SYALUNA: Giving information here today,CMO Una Dr. Raman Kumar Sharmasaid that on August 24, the dose ofCovid vaccine will be given for 18plus age group at 40 Covidvaccination centers in district Una.He informed that in the district, CHBangana, PHC Lathiani, PHC SohariTakoli, PHC Raipur Maidan, CHCBasdehra, HSC Jhudowal, HSCJakheda, CHC Santoshgarh, HSCNangan, HSC Sanoli, HSC RampurLal Singhi, HSC Jankaur KutharKalan, PHC Chalola, HSCGhandawal, HSC Basal, PHCDehlan, HSC Kotla Kalan GP Ajnoli,HSC Sasan, Radha Swami SatsangGhar Una, Radha Swami SatsangGhar Amb, CH Chintpurni, CHDhusada, PHC Arcot, PHC Charudu,PHC Dharamsala Mahtan, PHCChak Sarai, HSC Andaura, HSCNehri, Radha Swami Satsang GharDeyada, CH Haroli, CHC Dulaihar,PHC Khad, PHC Saloh, PHCPunjabar, McCaffrey Industries,Radha Swami Satsang Ghar Gagret,GDC Daulatpur Chowk, PHCMarwari, PHC Badheda in Rajputanand Rawmapa Bhanjal Covid vaccinevaccination will be done.

12 lakh apple boxesreach Solan MandiABHIJOT PUNJSOLAN: The fruit and vegetablemarket of Solan, which is one of themodern mandis of the country, isbuzzing with the redness of applesthese days. In Parwanoo and Solanmandi of district Solan, so far 11.1.5lakh apple boxes have reached, dueto which about two billion have beentraded. On the other hand,transactions worth Rs 2 crores havebeen done digitally under E-NAM. Atthe same time, apples are reachingParwanoo and Solan Mandi in largequantities these days. Farmers havealso got better rates of apples thistime. Farmers who brought applesfrom different districts of the state toldthat earlier they got better prices forapples, but these days there hasbeen some reduction in the prices.He said that his money comesdirectly into his account. On the otherhand, APMC secretary RavindraSharma told that till now the businessof two billion has been done through11.15 lakh apple boxes. He said thatthis time the prices of apples havebeen good in the initial period. Eventhese days, close to two thousandboxes are being sold. He said thatbusiness worth two crores has beendone under the name of E.nam.

District level virtualSanskrit conferenceat Dohagi SanskritCollege todayPANKAJ KATNAUNA: Sanskrit Week is beingorganized across the world from 19to 25 August. The purpose of thisSanskrit week is to make all thepeople living in India aware aboutthe importance of Sanskrit. Underthis, a district level Sanskritconference is being organized on24th August in Una, the branch ofSanskrit Bharti Himachal Pradesh,through online Google Meet, whichwill be presided over by DistrictPublic Relations Officer, Una, ArunPatial. Sanskrit conference isorganized to preserve and spreadthe world's oldest and simplestlanguage. The program will bepresided over by Brijmohan Shastri,President, District Sanskrit BhartiUna and Dr. Krishna Mohan Pandey,Acharya of Veda Shastra of SanatanDharma Adarsh SanskritMahavidyalaya, Dohagi will be thechief speaker in the program.

Himachal Governor urges youngscientists to become job giversCM too participates in Convocation of CSK HP Agriculture University

DINESH AGARWALSHIMLA, AUG 23

16th Convocation of ChaudharySarwan Kumar HimachalPradesh Agriculture UniversityPalampur was held at theUniversity Auditorium atPalampur in Kangra districttoday. Governor RajendraVishwanath Arlekar presidedover the Convocation whileChief Minister Jai Ram Thakurgraced the occasion as ChiefGuest. While delivering hisaddress, the Governor appealedto the young scientists anddegree holders to become jobgivers instead of job seekers, forwhich they should move towardsself-employment. Theirknowledge should benefit thesociety and the agriculturalcommunity in particular. Headded that apart from theacademic contribution, thecontribution should also remainin the agriculture sector of thestate. He said that youth were theassets of the country and shouldcontribute towards nationbuilding activities. He said thatthe nation could develop onlywhen youth were focused,disciplined and growth orientedand urged them to inculcate goodvalues like discipline, patriotism,sincerity and devotion.

Arlekar said that innovationthrough research and technology

would be helpful in self-dependence of the farmingcommunity at large. Whilecongratulating the gold medalwinners, all degree recipients andesteemed alumni, the Governorsaid that the sapling planted inthe form of this university byformer Chief Minister ShantaKumar on November 1, 1978today had become a center ofhigh learning in the country. Hesaid that the vision given byShanta Kumar needs to be takenforward and it was ourresponsibility to contribute inthis direction. He said that theuniversity was doing excellentwork in the field of education,research and dissemination. Hesaid that last year, the IndianCouncil of Agricultural Researchranked this university 14th in theranking of all agricultural

universities and equivalentagricultural institutions in thecountry, for which he applaudedthe university authority. Headvised them to work more sothat this university could attainthe highest ranking in thecountry. “I would especially sayto the students who haveobtained graduation and post-graduation degrees that theyshould work with dedicationtowards society, nation andstate. You have to make gooduse of the education andknowledge given by thisuniversity”, said Governor.While addressing theConvocation, Chief Minister JaiRam Thakur said thatChaudhary Sarwan KumarAgriculture University was oneof the leading Universities inagricultural research and

education in the HimalayanStates of the country. He saidthat about 90 percent of thepopulation of Himachal Pradeshlives in rural areas withagriculture as main occupation.The research in agriculturebecomes all the more importantin strengthening the economy ofthe State. Thus, one cannot eventhink of development of the Statewithout development of the ruralareas. Keeping in view, thecontribution of agriculture, theState Government has launchedvarious schemes to improveproductivity, generateemployment and increase familyincome, he added. Jai RamThakur said that even during theCorona pandemic, the supportprovided by the agriculturesector was immense. He saidthat the world economy wasadversely affected, but thefarming community ensured thatfirm support was provided to thedwindling economy of thecountry.The nation wasfortunate to have a strongleadership in form of PrimeMinister Narendra Modi tosuccessfully bail out the countryfrom this crisis. He said thatdespite all odds the PrimeMinister ensured that thecountry becomes self-sustainable in essentials such asPPE kits, ventilators and noweven vaccine.

Admissions open forHorticulture, Forestry & Biotech

programmes at UHF Nauni

DINESH AGARWALSHIMLA, AUG 23

Students interested in applying forUndergraduate, Postgraduate andDoctoral programmes inHorticulture, Forestry,Biotechnology, Agribusiness andBusiness Management for theacademic year 2021-22 at Dr. YSParmar University of Horticultureand Forestry, Nauni can submittheir online application at theuniversity’s admission portal. Theapplication process is online andinterested students can apply bylogging on to the universitywebsite or admission portalhttps://www.yspuniversity.ac.in/yspuniversity/. The detailedprospectus for each programmecan be downloaded from theuniversity website. The last date toapply for UG programmes -BSc(Hons) Horticulture, BSc(Hons) Forestry and B TechBiotechnology (for both normaland self-financing seats) is 20thSeptember, 2021. Studentsapplying for M Sc/MBA(Agribusiness)/ MBA andPhD programmes must do so by25th September 2021. This year,

the university is filling the seats forits various programme on the basisof the scorecard of the IndianCouncil of AgriculturalResearch(ICAR) entrance exam tobe conducted by the NationalTesting Agency(NTA). Theadmission to the University’snormal seats of BSc (Hons)Horticulture, BSc (Hons)Forestry and B TechBiotechnology will be held onthe scorecard of ICAR-AIEEA(UG) 2021. Admissions to MSc,MBA (Agribusiness) and PhDwill also be conducted on thescorecard of ICAR AIEEA (PG)and AICE-JRF/SRF respectively.Candidates who wish to applyfor self-financing seats (UGProgramme) and MBA (General)are not required to apply for theICAR examination. However,they are required to fill the onlineapplication form of theUniversity. The admission to UGself-financing seats will be basedon the merit of the qualifyingexamination and for MBA(General) on the merit ofHPMAT followed by groupdiscussion and personalinterview at the university.

Centre, state govt emphasise on empoweringyouth physically and mentally: Satpal Satti

PANKAJ KATNAUNA, AUG 23

In order to make the futuregeneration physically andmentally strong, the presentcentral and stategovernments are givingemphasis on qualityeducation and sports. Thiswas stated by the 6th StateFinance CommissionPresident Satpal Satti whileaddressing a gathering afterinaugurating the gym inWard 8 of SantoshgarhNagar Panchayat onSunday evening.

The stadium has beenconstructed at Basdehra ata cost of Rs.99.64 lakh,while the stadium is beingbuilt at Dehlan at a cost ofRs.99.64 lakh. Apart fromthis, DPR has been sent forapproval for construction

of stadium in Santoshgarhand Jalguna. He exhortedthe youth to stay away fromdrugs and spend their timein sports activities to honetheir talents.

He felt proud that fourplayers from Dehlanparticipated in the lastKabaddi League. Satti said

that the present Central andState Governments havegiven two big projectsworth Rs 1000 crore to UnaAssembly Constituency.Out of which the Indian Oilsub depot has been openedat Pekhuvela at a cost of Rs550 crore while PGIsatellite center is being

built at a cost of Rs 450crore. He said that amodern ISBT bus stand hasbeen prepared in Una cityat a cost of Rs 35 crore anddedicated to the people.

The work of mother-child hospital in the zonalhospital at a cost of Rs.20crore has been completedup to 70 percent. Theconstruction of a multi-storey building of the MiniSecretariat at UnaHeadquarters at a cost ofRs 22 crore is going on warfooting. ITI Mehatpur isbeing constructed with Rs8.55 crore and B-block ofITI Una with Rs 7 crore.The building of CHCBasdehra is beingconstructed at a cost of Rs4 crore. About 40 crorerupees are being spent onthe maintenance and

upgradation of roads inUna sub-division. Rs.10crore is being spent in JalJeevan Mission and Rs.11crore is being spent onstrengthening irrigationsystem. Mehatpur seweragework is going on at a costof Rs.4 crore. The work ofsewerage construction isalso going on inSantoshgarh. Una-Santoshgarh upgraded roadhas been prepared at a costof 12 crores. UnderNABARD, road wideningand improvement workshave been done in LowerDehlan Panchayat (LowerDehlan to Badaihar,Sudhyana Talab toBasdehra, Sampark Margto Mohalla Chaudhary andSampark Marg to Mohalla-Mahantan) with an amountof Rs 2.61 crore.

Kavi Sammelan organized on Sanskrit DivasKISHORI LAL BAINSUNA, AUG 23

Kavi Sammelan organized bythe District Language andCulture Department of Unain Nari at Dera BabaRudrunand SanskritMahavidyalya Hall onSanskrit Divas today. ThisKavi Sammelan was attendedby well-known poets of Unaand delivered their messagein Sanskrit language forsociety. District Languageofficer, Neelam Kumariwhile addressing to the Poetssaid that we should respect alllanguages. About to 25 poetsfrom Una District

participated in this KaviSammelan. The followingpoets participated in this KaviSammelan: Rachana Sharma,Kishori Lal Bains, KrishanLadakhi, Om Parkash

Sharma, Sulekha Devi,Shivani Devi, BalvinderGhanari and 18 students ofSanskrit Mahavidalya Nari.Many other dignitaries werealso present on this occasion.

SHANTI GAUTAMBADDI, AUG 23

Mahendra Pal Gurjar, IAS,SDM Nalagarh met MohitChawla, IPS, on Monday, whotook charge as SP Baddi. Hecongratulated him on takingcharge. Both officers assured ofthe highest level of cooperationin future. The SP thanked theSDM Nalagarh and the entireadministration to make thingseasier for Baddi Police in thepast as well. He recognized thesupport and cooperation givenand hoped that the assistancegiven by the administrationduring Covid will continue.

SDM congratulates SP on taking charge3000 persons benefited under PMSVANidhischeme in Himachal: Suresh Bhardwaj

SHIMLA, AUG 23

Urban Development MinisterSuresh Bhardwaj said here todaythat more than 3000 people havebeen benefited with distribution ofRs. 3 crore collateral free loansunder PM Street Vendor'sAtmaNirbhar Nidhi(PMSVANidhi) launched by PrimeMinister Narendra Modi toempower Street vendors. UrbanDevelopment Minister said that thestate government led by ChiefMinister Jai Ram Thakur iscommitted to the all arounddevelopment of the state. The HPUrban Development Department is

successfully implementing thisscheme rolled out by the centre.State has 5790 Street vendorsregistered with the department outof which more than 3000 have beenbenefited under this scheme.Bhardwaj said that collateral freeloan worth Rs. 3 crore has beendisbursed to the beneficiaries andthe state government wascommitted to implement thisscheme in letter and spirit. Nowward councillors and officialsconcerned would reach out to Streetvendors to make them aware aboutthe scheme besides helping them toavail the benefits, he added. TheMinister directed officers of Urban

Development Department tocommunicate with banks to disposepending cases. He said that someloan applications were ineligiblewhile few were pending. In order tomake it more convenient to thestreet vendors Councillors wouldreach out to Street vendors in theirrespective areas, so that all genuinestreet vendors get the benefits of thescheme, he said. The Ministerfurther said that the scheme aims toprovide working capital loans up toRs. 10,000 at a subsidized rate ofinterest for a period of one year. Theinterest subsidy of seven percent isalso provided on timely or earlyrepayment of the loan.

HAMIRPUR, AUG 23

Former HP Congress chief andMLA from Nadaun assemblyconstituency of Hamirpur,Sukhvinder Singh Sukhoo todayblasted the Union Ministers, NitinGadkari and Anurag Thakur forspeaking lies to the people onvarious projects for the state.

In a statement Monday, he saidthe ongoing Jan ashirwad yatra ofthe BJP was nothing but to befoolthe people. He said it was NitinGadkari earlier and now AnuragThakur both union ministers who

told lies to the people on the issuesof road constructions and railwaylinks in Himachal Pradesh.

Sukhoo said the four lane workof the roads in the state hadbecome a thing of the past andnothing concrete was going on inthe state.

Similarly, the rail link tovarious parts of the state includingsurvey of Rail link between Unaand hamirpur was nothing but abundle of lies.

He asked Anurag Thakur toclarify when work on the CentralUniversity would start and the

survey of rail link between Unaand Hamirpur to become a realitythrough the survey.

The Congress party leader saidfearing a shocking defeat in thecoming Vidhan Sabha elections invarious states of India includingHimachal Pradesh, the BJP hadstarted such practices but thesewould not yield favourable resultsfor them.

He claimed that the Congressparty would sweep the Vidhansabha elections in the state andwould form its government with athumping majority.

Cong's Sukhoo blasts Gadkari, Anurag for lyingand befooling people over dev projects

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YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 2021

One arrested six booked for illegal sand miningPHAGWARA (ASHOKKAURA): The Shahkot police have booked six persons and arrested an-other for illegal sand mining. The investigating officer Lakhbir Singh said that the accused havebeen identified as Chiman Singh a resident of Ram Pur village and his five unidentified accom-plices. Manohar Lal inspector mining department Nakodar complained to the police that sand isbeing illegally mined inside Dhussi Bandh of River Sutlej near Ram Pur village.

IO said a police team raided the spot and impended six trolleys loaded with illegal sand and fivetractors but the accused managed to flee. IO said that a case under Section 21 of the Punjab Min-ing Act and 379(theft) and 411(dishonestly receiving stolen property) of the IPC has been regis-tered against the accused. The police also arrested Gobind Singh a resident of Fateh Garh Koru-tanna village in Moga for illegal sand mining and released him on bail said IO Balkar Singh.

SHASHI PAL JAINKHARAR, AUG 23

Kharar Police have registered a case against San-jay Meena, Rajat Goyal, Manish Kumar etc un-der Sections 420, 120B of IPC and Section 66Bof the Information Technology Act 2000 in con-nection with an alleged fraud committed withChandigarh University Gharuan.

In this regard an authorized person ofChandigarh University Mr. Surinder Singh Deolhad complained to the SSP of District Mohalithat Chandigarh University had entered into anagreement with the other party on 18th Decem-ber 2020 for launching an online campaign for7000 new admissions. As per the agreement, theother party was to provide 7,000 new admissionsfor which they had to take Rs 9,600 per admis-sion. So a total amount of Rs 6 crore 72 lak wasto be paid to them.

The other party asked for an advance fromthe university and the university gave them anadvance of Rs. 2 crore 68 lakh 80 thousand. Af-ter receiving the advance amount the accusedstarted with the assign work i.e. online campaignto promote Chandigarh University. As per com-plaint however shortly after engaging the ac-cused person it was found that the other party

had miss presented the complainant and resultsas assured i.e new admission of 7000 till Sep-tember 2021 was not possible.

According to complaint the accused personprovided the complainant with the fake/stolendata which was totally irrelevant. As per com-plaint a meeting was held with the other party onApril 2 and all the facts were stated and at theirrequest the target for admissions was reducedfrom 7,000 to 2,500. On this, out of the earlier

amount given by the university, now accordingto the new target, an amount of Rs. 1 crore 72lakh 80 thousand was to be returned to the uni-versity as was paid excess earlier. When the Uni-versity demanded the amount the accused start-ed dilly delaying the repayment of excessamount and the accused in the month of May2021 stopped the online campaign without set-tlement of accounts.

As per complaint till the date of complainttotal 440 new admissions had been facilitated bythe accused and such the complainant was lableto pay only an amount of Rs. 42 lakh 24 thou-sand. He alleged that the other party was not pay-ing Rs. 2 crore 26 lakh 56 thousand to the uni-versity. By giving bogus / fake Leeds to the Uni-versity about the students to those who did notwant to get admission in the university, they havecheated the university in this way.

According to the police investigation, thecomplainant said that the data provided to 11,884students was similar to other institutions. Ac-cording to police inquiry, the other party claimsthat it has terminated the MoU by sending a ter-mination notice to the petitioner. According tothe police, the investigation has found that theother party had cheated them by not returning theamount of Rs 2 crore 26 lakh 56 thousand.

Four booked for allegedly committing fraud of rupees 2 crore 26 lakh 56 thousand with Chandigarh UniversityTrolla goes imblanced

crushes many vehicles

RAJINDER SINGHPATHANKOT: A trolla near the city'sChakki bridge broke on manyvehicles this morning.The situationwas such that an uncontrolled 10tyre big trolley first hit two cars, thena bass and then an auto and then afamily-ridden car and then droveaway.After the accident, thefrightened trolley driver fled leavingthe trolley on the spot. After theaccident, there was an atmosphereof screaming and chaos on thespot. According to eyewitnesses,the trolley hit more than a dozenvehicles at such a high speed that itdid not seem that anyone would beable to survive today.Thankfully, the car that was stuck infront of the trolley, in which threewomen, the driver and a 15-day-oldchild were also saved, narrowlyescaped.Neighbors and SHODivision No. 2 Davinder Prakashpulled out the badly trapped familyinside by breaking the glass/doorsof the car, although people werethanking God for no serious injuries.It is being told that the trolley RJ 13GB 7887 which was loaded withluggage had just crossed the wheelbridge and had just come on theway towards Pathankot that thedriver lost his control over him, firsthe drove a car PB 35 X 4801. Thehit, which crashed from both thefront and rear, was being driven byKamal Kishore, a resident of Jwalain Himachal Pradesh, in which hiswife was also aboard.

Ensuring number one rank ofChandigarh as city beautiful to be top

priority of new MC CommissionerRAJIV JAINCHANDIGARH, AUG 23

New Municipal CorporationCommissioner Ms. AninditaMitra today said that she willaccord top priority to fulfilaspirations of citizens be-sides striving tomake Chandigarh,the city beautifuland 1st on the swac-chta rankings.

The 2007 batchIAS officer today as-sumed the charge ofher office here at MCCbuilding today. Besides be-ing the Deputy Commission-er of important districts ofPunjab like Shaheed BhagatSingh Nagar andHoshiarpur, Ms. Mitra hasremained Director Informa-tion and Public Relations,Punjab twice during whichshe played an important rolein organising 550th ParkashPurab of Sri Guru NanakDev ji thereby boosting theimage of Punjab governmentacross the globe. She wasalso one of the longest serv-

ing Directors of Departmentof Food and Civil SupplyPunjab during which she notonly broke the back bone oftransport cartel but also en-sured smooth and hassle freeprocurement operations forfour consecutive years. The

strenuous effortsmade by her forprocurement ofgrains and present-ing right image ofgovernment duringthe COVID timeswas also lauded by

one and all. Meanwhile Ms. Mitra

said that main focus will beto provide clean, effective,efficient, transparent and cit-izen centric administrationto people. She said maxi-mum use of technology willbe made to further make thecity clean, green and pollu-tion free.

The Municipal Commis-sioner also said that effortswill be made to ensure scien-tific management of garbagethereby giving big reprieveto people.

Nitin Tandon appointed asChairman of IT Cell PunjabSURESH KUMARBHOA: Nitin Tandon has beenappointed as Chairman of IT CellPunjab.On the instructions of AllIndia Congress President SoniaGandhi and Rahul Gandhi, National

PresidentAurobindo Singh,Chief MinisterCaptain AmarinderSingh, CongressPresident NavjotSidhu, CabinetMinister RanaGurmit Singh Sodhi

and Sukhwinder Bindra ChairmanPunjab Youth Development Boardappointed Nitin Tandon as Presidentof IT Cell Punjab State UnorganizedWorkers Congress.Nitin Tandon hasbeen working in different positionsin the Congress party since thebeginning. He is also working asGeneral Secretary and DistrictCoordinator from Ludhiana andspokesperson of Punjab YouthDevelopment Board of PunjabGovernment. He also received theBest Youth Icon Award at CTUniversity, India's Top University in2020 and Inspiring Youth Leader ofPunjab Award in 2021. Punjab ChiefMinister Captain Amarinder Singhand Cabinet Minister Rana GurmeetSukhwinder Bindra ChairmanPunjab Youth Development Boardon their dedication and hard work.Singh Sodhi and Bindra gave theappointment letter andcongratulated.

116 families of Dhar block willearn Rs 1 lakh per season fromsilkworm rearing: Puneet Pinta

R. SINGHPATHANKOT: Continuing efforts arebeing made to removeunemployment from Sujanpur.Myendeavor is to make themarginalized people self-reliant.This was stated by Punjab TradersBoard Chairman Puneet SainiPinta.Chairman Puneet Pintainformed that Chief Minister CaptainAmarinder Singh has given greensignal to the silk industry project inlight of his appeal. Which will beinaugurated by the Chief Minister ina virtual way on Tuesday. ChairmanPuneet Pinta said that under thisproject, 5 panchayats of Sujanpurhave been included.These includeBhabbar, Durangkhad, Samanu,Fangtoli and Jungath.He said that116 families of the said villageswould get employment for this. Inthese villages, the Punjabgovernment will build 46 bearinghouse sheds at a cost of Rs.3.5crore.116 families will rearsilkworms in the said sheds.

Public pressurise politicalparties for one MLA, one

pension formula : Dr. SinglaSANGRUR (SUMER GARG): Dr. Surinder Singla,a former state secretary of Indian Medical Associa-tion(IMA) Punjab unit in an exclusive interview to thiscorrespondent said "Since long many of legislators ofPunjab state are getting multiple pensions, as they havebeen reelected to state assembly for more than one time,on the pretext of increments, besides this their income

tax amount, on their income be-ing as legislators is also paid fromgovernment treasury, which is agross misuse of power, unethical,totally unjustified and exploita-tion of public funds by our elect-ed representatives". Singla fur-ther said that in the coming as-sembly elections in Punjab, pub-

lic by raising their voice against this practice compel allpolitical parties to make this issue, as a declaration intheir elections’s manifesto that their elected & formerlegislators would follow the formula of one MLA, onepension, not get more than one pension, besides this alsopromised to pay their income tax on their earnings asMLAs from their own pocket, instead of from govern-ment treasury. Singla added, "All political parties mustget an affidavit from their candidates to adhere with thisdeclaration, so that they should be bound to follow thisrule after winning the elections".

ANIL VERMABATHINDA, AUG 23

Shopkeepers in the vegetablemarkets have to pay a daily air-port fee which Finance Minis-ter Manpreet SinghBadal has announced toincrease to 50 per centon August 15. But nowsocial activist AmarjitMehta has come out insupport of the shop-keepers holding handsand he announced that hand-cuffed shopkeepers would begiven relief in 109 per cent dai-ly fee instead of 50 percent. Ina statement, social activistAmarjit Mehta, Senior VicePresident, Punjab Chamber ofCommerce and Industry saidthat handcuffed shopkeepershave suffered huge losses dur-ing the Corona epidemic andtoday these shopkeepers arenot in a position to pay a daily

market fee of Rs 100, Rs 150or Rs 50. But the shopkeepergets Rs 3,000 to Rs 4,500 permonth, which the FinanceMinister has announced to in-crease to 50 per cent. But this

announcement cannotbe a relief as the Coro-na epidemic has taken aheavy toll on thesepoor shopkeepers.Therefore, there shouldbe 100 per cent relief inthis fee for the shop-

keepers holding hands. Forwhich they are making greatefforts, the issue has also beenraised with the Chairman ofMandi Board Lal Singh andthe Secretary. They have as-sured that 100 per cent reliefwill be announced soon be-cause these shopkeepers arebarely making a living todayand they too are hit by the highprices of diesel / petrol / cook-ing gas from all sides.

Efforts on to provide 100% reliefto shopkeepers: Amarjit Mehta

DALJIT AJNOHAHOSHIARPUR, AUG 23

Avinash Rai Khanna, BJP Hi-machal Pradesh in-charge andformer Punjab MP, celebratedthe festival of Raksha Bandhanin PRTC Jahan Khelan. On thisoccasion, Khanna said that thethread of Raksha Bandhan givesus immense courage andstrength.

One gets power from it.Khanna said that the soldiers en-gaged in the service of the soci-ety and the country by stayingaway from their families shouldalso feel their belonging in thefestivals, so we should celebratethis festival with such soldiersand the police personnel. On thisoccasion, Khanna, wishedeveryone a happy Rakhi includ-ing the Commandant and otherjawans, who were present.Khanna also got Rakhi tied fromfemale employees working in

PRTC and blessed them. On thisoccasion, the women and chil-dren accompanying Khanna cel-ebrated the festival of RakshaBandhan by tying Rakhi to theemployees.

Khanna appealed to all thepeople to celebrate every festivallike Raksha Bandhan with thesoldiers and personnel engagedin the service of the society andcountry to boost the morale ofthe soldiers of the country. Onthis occasion, along with Dr. Ra-man Ghai, S.P. Dewan, AnuragSood, Umesh Jain, GurvinderSaini, Madhusudan Vij and oth-er activists tied rakhis fromwomen police personnel.

Thread of Raksha Bandhan gives courageand strength: Avinash Rai Khanna

CS JOLLYCHANDIGARH, AUG 23

Hockey Chandigarh andTynor felicitated the hock-ey stars of Tokyo Olympicsat a function organized atHyatt Regency here.Haryana Governor, Ban-daru Dattatreya, was thechief guest on the occasionwhile Rana Gurmit SinghSodhi, Punjab Sports Minis-ter was the guest of honour.

The five players weregiven a cash award of Rs 5lakh each while the twocoaches were given a cashaward of Rs 2.5 lakh each.Those felicitated includedRupinder Pal Singh, GurjantSingh, Monika Malik,Sharmila Devi, ReenaKhokhar, Shivendra Singh,and Gurminder Singh. TheHaryana Governor, Ban-daru Dattatreya whilespeaking on the occasioncongratulated the hockey

stars present on the occa-sion, who had after 41 yearsafter winning bronzebrought international ac-claim to Indian hockey. Headded he was very happy tosee that the hockey teamhad a lot of players fromHaryana and Punjab.

The Governor said un-der the state sports policy,the government was award-ing 6 crore to those winninggold, 4 crore to those win-ning silver, and 2.5 crore tobronze medal winners. ThePunjab Sports Minister,Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi,said, it was praiseworthy onpart of Hockey Chandigarhto felicitate the hockey starsof Tokyo Olympics. Laud-

ing their performance at theTokyo Olympics, he said, itwas indeed a proud momentfor this region that the play-ers had shown their excel-lent performance. Givingdetails about sprucing up fa-cilities in Punjab, he said,while new facilities wouldbe created in the State, theexisting ones will be up-graded.

Karan Gilhotra, Presi-dent, Hockey Chandigarh,who is also a known philan-thropist, while speaking onthe occasion said, “It was al-ways the endeavour ofHockey Chandigarh to en-courage the players and willcontinue to promote thesport in a big way.

Hockey Chandigarh felicitatesHockey Olympians

SHASHI PAL JAINKHARAR, AUG 23

The Rayat Bahra Universityorganized a free healthcamp at villages Lohari andPadiala. The camp was or-ganized under the guidanceof Dr Parvinder Singh, Vice-Chancellor, Rayat BahraUniversity. Gurvinder SinghBahra, Chancellor of theRayat Bahra University,said that the Rayat BahraUniversity would keepworking for the benefit ofthe society under CorporateSocial Responsibility by

providing free healthcareservices. A team of expertsfrom the Rayat Bahra Den-tal Hospital, Rayat BahraNursing College, Physio-therapy and Life SciencesDepartment examined thepatients. Free blood sugar, bloodpressure, oxygen saturationlevel and other facilitieswere available at the camp.Most people were found tobe suffering from highblood pressure and low glu-cose level. They were guid-ed by the doctors to go in forfurther investigations.

Free healthcare camp by RBUat village Lohari and Padiala

HARPREETLADDI SIDHU GURUSAR SADHAR, AUG23

At Rakba-Hisowal Toll Plaza,the women recited SriSukhmani Sahib for the uplift-ment and well being of thefarmers, who were becoming apart of the Delhi struggle andwished them a good luck andsuccess in their mission and re-turn home soon.

The function was attendedby a large number of farmers.At the end, all the ladies joint-ly prayed for the well being ofthe farmers involved in thefarmers' movement and for thesuccess of the movement.Speaking on the occasion,Mahinder Singh KamalpuraDistrict President, RandhirSingh Block President Raikotand Jagtar Singh DeharkaBlock President Jagraon, said

that about 600 farmers havebeen martyred so far in the on-going struggle in differentparts of Delhi, but the UnionGovernment is not paying anyattention. He also demandedimmediate withdrawal of agri-cultural laws from the Uniongovernment. During this time,Guru ka Langar was distrib-uted uninterruptedly. Presenton the occasion were JaspreetSingh Dhatt, Jatinder Jyoti,Gurpreet Dhaliwal, AjmerSingh Rajoana, Amarjit SinghLeel, Ranjit Singh Tughla,Arvinder Singh Rajoana Khurdetc, Swaran Singh Kaile, Gur-deep Singh Burj, JaswantSingh, Sarpanch GurmeetSingh Atiana, Gurmel Singh,Jaswinder Singh. , AmarjitSingh Ratowal, Tejinder SinghTeji, Sarpanch BhagwantSingh etc.

HARPREET SINGH GILLRAIKOT, AUG 23

ASI Gurmukh Singh of Indo-Tibetan Border Police, whowas martyred in a Naxal at-tack in Narainpur district ofBastar division under Chhat-tisgarh, was cremated with of-ficial honors at his native vil-lage Jhorran this morning.

A contingent of police ledby Sub-Inspector SubhashSingh of 45 Batallion reachedthe village carrying the bodyof Shaheed Gurmukh Singh.A large contingent of ITBPpersonnel saluted ShaheedGurmukh Singh with eight ri-fles. DIG Angad Prasad Ya-dav, Vishal Mahat Comman-dant Baddowal Force, Assis-tant Commander Gautam Ku-mar from ITBP Delhi Head-quarters were present. On be-half of the district administra-tion, Tehsildar RaikotParamjit Singh Brar, DSPRaikot Gurbachan Singh on

behalf of the police adminis-tration paid homage to thedead body of Shaheed Gur-mukh Singh. The final saluteto the body was presented byGurnoor Singh, son of Sha-heed Gurmukh Singh and hiselderly father Jangir Singh.DIG Yadav said that all possi-ble assistance would be pro-vided soon and the forcewould extend all possible helpto the family of the martyr.On the day of the incident,

Gurmukh Singh was leadingthe operation with his Assis-tant Commandant SudhakarShinde, when a large group ofNaxalites ambushed him andkilled him, during which bothwere martyred. During this,Sukhjit Singh Jhorran, Gagan-preet Singh Channan, SukhrajSingh Andlu, Satpal SinghJhorran, Jathedar AmritpalSingh Happy Sivian, InderjitSingh Gondwal etc. werepresent.

Last rites of Shaheed Gurmukh Singhperformed with honours at village Jhorran

Women conduct recitations of Sri SukhmaniSahib for success of peasant struggle

DEO Elementary BaldevRaj visits schools,

interacts with children

RAJINDER SINGH,PATHANKOT , AUG 23Various projects are beingrun by the Punjab Govern-ment and the Department ofSchool Education, Punjabwith the aim of providinghigh quality education toevery child of Punjab.Withthe aim of taking stock ofthese projects, today theDistrict Education Officer,Elementary Education,Pathankot, Baldev Raj visit-ed different schools of thedistrict.On behalf of theDEO, an inspirational visitwas made to the Govern-ment Primary School Tal-wara Gujjaran, Talwara Jat-ta, Nallunga, Kauntarpur,Phulda etc.

HARPREET SINGH GILLRAIKOT, AUG 23

Thekedar Hakam SinghRaikot held a packed meetingwith Aam Aadmi Party work-ers at the resid ence ofSwaranjit Singh Bittu (Dis-trict Secretary Kisan Wing)at village Andlu. The peoplewere made aware of the pro-people policies of Arvind Ke-jriwal and the power guaran-tee forms were filled up. Gur-minder Singh Toor, Urban

President, Surjit SinghRaikot and Karam SinghKamma addressed the meet-ing. A large number of work-ers including Circle PresidentPreet Singh Raikot, Parmin-der Singh Raikot, Ajit SinghGeji, Kewal Singh formerpanch, Bablu Singh Andlu,Dhiru Singh Andlu, KartarSingh, Kashmiri Lal,Paramjit Singh, KuldeepSingh Michael, TarlochanSingh and Surinder Singhwere present.

Thekedar Hakam Singh meets village residentsat village Andlu regarding AAP's agenda

Three-day program for inaugurationof Lord Shri Radha Krishna Temple

will start from August 28

PATHANKOT (RAJINDER SINGH): A meetingwas held on behalf of Gaushala Dairywal under thechairmanship of President Manmahesh Billa. In whichArvind Parashar, Sham Mahajan and Ranjana Mahajanwere specially present.Giving information, PresidentManmahesh Billa and Arvind Parashar said that thethree-day religious ceremony for the inauguration ofthe Lord Shri Radha Krishna temple built in DairywalGaushala premises and the statue Pran Pratishtha willstart from August 28.In which Annadhivas and Havan-Yagna will be done on the first day. On August 29, Pha-ladhivas, Havan-Yagya, Shobha Yatra followed byPreeti Bhoj.On August 30, Jaladhivas and Havan-Yaj-na, Panchamrit Abhishek and idol worship, divine dar-shan and Bhandara will be organized after the first Aar-ti. During the meeting all the members and guests alsoreleased the card of the ceremony. Jasvir Singh, LRSodhi, Chacha Ved Prakash, Manmohan Kala, NeelamSaini, Ashish Mahajan, Vimal Chhabra, Kanta Khosla,Santosh Mahajan, Satish Mahajan, Shashipal Vashist,Mridul were present on this occasion.

NEWS AT AGLANCE

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 2021

Two arrested on mobile theft KULDEEP SOOD BARNALA: Two persons have been arrested by the local police on charges ofstealing and selling mobile phones. SI Baldev Singh Mann, in-charge ofHandiaya police station, said that At the behest of the informant, Rajesh Kumarand Ramu Shah residents of Siampur Post Office, Adapur, District Matiari,Bihar Hall, Abad Handiaya are accustomed to stealing and selling mobilephones, who are tending to sell a mobile phone after stealing it, from HandiayaBazaar. As the information was conclusive and reliable, the accused beenarrested and a mobile phone has been recovered and the accused have beenbooked under Section 379/411 under Case No.108.

7HMV CollegiateSchool takes anotherstep towards WomenEmpowerment

HARPREET SINGH LEHALJALANDHAR: Hans Raj Mahila MahaVidyalaya is working towards “WomenEmpowerment” by making Bags fromold clothes in collaboration with AjitSingh Foundation (NGO) under GreenSparrow Mission. Principal Prof. Dr.Ajay Sareen said that our organisationalways work for the benefit of country &welfare of girls that the society can bemade skilled. The Chief Guest of theoccasion was MLA Bawa Henry alsoappreciated the work done by thecollege for upliftment of girls. MissionIncharge Ramanpreet Kaur said thatthis mission gives a liberty to girls fordeveloping their personality.

Amneet Kondal takescharge as District PoliceChief in HoshiarpurDALJEET AJNOHAHOSHIARPUR: On behalf of IPSAmneet Kondal took charge as DistrictPolice Chief in Hoshiarpur On reaching

his mini secretariat,he was given aguard of honor bythe police party,after taking over hischarge, he whiletalking to thereporters said thatthis is his second

posting as SSP. Were He told that he isan IPS of 2011 batch. On this occasionhe said that his priority would be thatlaw and order will be strictlyimplemented in the district andeveryone should get justice.

Science college Jagraonorganizes webinar onSilent Heart Attack

SUKH NAHARJAGRAON: S. Government college ofScience Education and ResearchJagraon organized an online Webinaron the topic, "Silent Heart Attack;causes, symptoms and Management."Prof. Nirmal Singh, vice director of thecollege accorded a warm welcome tothe resource person, Dr. KamalpreetKaur from C. T. University. Sarabjotekaur Bedi, Head Dept. Of Zoologyapprised the participants of therelevance of topic of the webinar.Hardeep kaur introduced the resourceperson to the participants. Dr.Kamalpreet held that stressful lifestyleand unhealthy food habits lead to suchkind of problems. She also discussed indetail the various kinds of blockage andtechniques available for treatment. Sheheld that we should eat healthy, walkand exercise to keep heart active andhealthy. The technical support andwebcast of the event was seen byJatinder singh and Parminder Singh.

Madhu Sudan Sharmatakes charge as InspectorGeneral STC BSF Kharkan

DALJEET AJNOHAHOSHIARPUR: Madhu Sudan Sharma,IG BSF took over the charge asInspector General STC BSF Kharkan,Hosiarpur on 21st August. STCKharkan is the Premier Training Centrefor BSF in Punjab and Nodal centre forMahila training in western theatre ofBSF. He is a BSF cadre officer and hadjoined Border Security Force as A directentry officer in the year 1986. He hasheld sensitive assignments at variousHeadquarters. During his illustriouscarrier he has served in the elite NSGand represented India in the prestigiousUnited Nation Mission. Before joiningSTC BSF Kharkan, Sh. Madhu SudanSharma was commanding the highlysensitive special operation FrontierOdisha where he galvanized the undercommand sectors & units to gainlaudable achievements againstMaoists/Naxals despite numerouschallenges. Madhu Sudan Sharma is anative of village Chamuhi (Kamahidevi), district-Hoshiarpur. He did hisschoolingfrom DAV School, Dasuyaand is an alumni of Govt. College,Hoshiarpur.

Money laundering case: ED files chargesheetagainst Anil Deshmukh's aides

AGENCYMUMBAI, AUG 23

The Enforcement Directorate(ED) on Monday filed achargesheet against formerMaharashtra Home Minister AnilDeshmukh's aides KundanShinde and Sanjeev Palande inan alleged money launderingcase. The case revolves aroundthe transfer posting racket andcollection from bar owners.

Shinde and Palande wereearlier sent by the court to EDcustody. The ED had earlierinformed the court that variousbar owners were called by theagency for a statement and they

had categorically said that theypaid Rs 40 lakh to Sachin Wazeas 'Good luck Money' inDecember 2020 when Waze was

Crime Investigation Unit (CIU)head. The ED had told the courtthat bar owners paid Rs 1.64crore and Rs 2.66 crore to

Mumbai Police's Zone 1 to 7 andZone 8 to 12.

"Sachin Waze told barowners that money will go to soand so. Sachin Waze has alsoaccepted that he has collected Rs4.77 crore between December2020 and February 2021 andhanded over the money toKundan Shinde. Two policeofficers' statements wererecorded and they said thatPalande was also given money.Sachin Waze also verified thisstatement of police officers aboutPalande," ED's lawyer had toldthe court. The case against theformer Home Minister wasregistered on May 11.

MCM celebrates Akshay Urja Diwas

CHANDIGARH, AUG 23

Mehr Chand Mahajan DAV College forWomen, Chandigarh celebrated AkshayUrja Diwas by organizing an onlinePopular Akshay Urja Lecture sponsoredby Chandigarh Renewable Energy andScience and Technology PromotionSociety (CREST). Dr. Vikrant Sharma,Deputy Director (Technical) and Head,Skill Development Division, NationalInstitute of Solar Energy, Gurugram wasthe resource person for the lecture. Dr.Vikrant gave an overview on the use ofsolar energy technologies and therenewable energy targets set by thegovernment for the year 2022. Dr.

Sharma pointed out the importance ofthe need of skilled manpower.Employment generation, eco-friendlyenergy generation, sustainability ofother energy resources for a longerperiod of time, are some of thesignificant advantages elucidated by DrVikrant Sharma in the lecture. Hemotivated the students to take upexperiments and projects to get familiarwith the use of solar energy andencouraged the college to extend theongoing projects on renewable energyusage in the college. An online inter-college poetry writing competitionsponsored by CREST was alsoorganized on the theme ‘Impact ofAkshay Urja in India”. Principal Dr.Nisha Bhargava lauded this initiative tospread awareness about the importanceof renewable energy resources for asustainable future. She added thatconscious of its responsibility towardsthe environment, MCM has been afrontrunner institution in adopting theuse of renewable energy like harnessingof solar energy and production of biogasfrom mess food waste.

KULDEEP SOOD/GULSHAN KUMAR BARNALA, AUG 23

Punjabi Sahitya Sabha (Reg.)Barnala at the local PunjabITI under the chairmanshipof Paramjit Singh Mann. Inwhich five poets recited theirworks. The Presidiumconsisted of Paramjit SinghMann, Om Prakash Gaso,and Buta Singh Chouhan.Malwinder poet and MajorSingh Rajgarh composedghazals, Satpal Dhaulacomposed 'Dil Te', 'AapneSarir' and Raghbir Singh GillKattu composed the song'Saawan Da Mahina', 'KisaniSangharsh' and GamdurRangeela composed thepoem 'Sarhad Boldi Hai'. DrTeja Singh Tilak, Buta Singh

Chouhan, Tarsem, BholaSingh Sangheda, DrBhupinder Singh Bedipresented their views whilereviewing the works.Speaking on ghazals, BholaSingh Sangheda said thatvery few ghazals are beingwritten in the area. Dr. Bedi

said that Satpal Dhaula'sworks are satirical. Tarsemsaid that study is alsomandatory in the mode inwhich we write. Chouhan'sq u e s t i o n - a n d - a n s w e rtechnique in the texture ofthe share keeps the readercurious. Dr. Teja Singh Tilak

suggested taking care of therhyme. Sahitya Ratna OmPrakash Gaso, whilereviewing the entire workspresented, brought to thenotice many definitions ofpoetry. Speaker ParamjitMann thanked everyonepresent. He said that nextmonth a discussion would beheld on the travelogue offormer president of PunjabiSahitya Sabha Ram SarupSharma. The forum wasmoderated by Major SinghGill. The function ended witha newly recorded song aboutthe independence of MakhanSingh Dhaner. TejinderChandihok, Lachhman DasMusafir, Gurbakhsh SinghMachhike among otherswere present in the court ofpoets.

Farmer movement: Case of straw burning to be dismissed,otherwise authorities will be besieged says Farmer leaders KULDEEP SOOD BARNALA, AUG 23

Issues of summons andnotices received by farmersin connection with the casesregistered against dozens offarmers in the district forburning straw during the lasttwo years in a permanentprotest have been discussedat the local railway stationdemanding repeal of CentralAgriculture Laws. Theleaders had said that burningstraw is a compulsion of thefarmers, not a hobby.Besides, The PunjabGovernment did not providethe facilities prescribed bythe National Green Tribunalto the farmers, neither did itprovide the requiredmachinery to the smallfarmers nor any alternativearrangement for strawcollection. They demandedimmediate dismissal of thecase from the districtadministration and warnedthe district authorities tostart siege soon. Speakersinclude Balwant Singh Upli,

Amarjit Kaur, NachhatarSingh Sahur, Baljit SinghChouhanke, Prempal Kaur,Manjit Raj, Manjit KaurKhudhi Kalan, Nanak SinghAmla Singh Wala, MelaSingh Kattu, Gurnam SinghThikriwala, HarcharanSingh Channa, Gora SinghDhillon. Etc. leaders werepresent. The speakers alsoslammed the Punjabgovernment for its stubbornattitude towards the

demands of sugarcanefarmers. He said that if thedemands of sugarcanefarmers were not met duringthe ongoing talks then theUnited Farmers Front (UFF)Barnala would stage aprotest in the city and thePunjab government wouldbe blown up. TodayRajwinder Singh Malli'sKavishari Jatha sang BirrasiKavishari and Sardara SinghMaud recited the poem.

Punjabi Sahitya Sabha conductsa poetry reading function

Dr. Nirmal SDM Kotkapura takes overadditional charge as Registrar BabaFarid University of Health Sciences

RAKESH SHARMAFARIDKOT, AUG 23

After a gap of about one and a half month of relinquishmentof charge by Dr.Ruhee Dugg, IAS, Registrar, today i.e.23.08.2021, a new IAS Officer namely Dr.NirmalOuesppachan, IAS, who is at present Sub DivisionalMagistrate, Kotkapura has taken over the additional charge asRegistrar, Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, Faridkotwith immediate effect. The Government had ordered hisposting on this assignment on 20.08.2021, when other 17PCS/IAS officers of the State of Punjab had also beentransferred to different places by the Government of Punjab.After receiving warm welcome in the University, he alongwithProf. (Dr.) Raj Bahadur, Vice Chancellor and othersubordinate officers of the University, took a round of all theBranches of University and thereafter Dr. Nirmal held hisoffice. He is 2019 batch IAS and as Sub DivisionalMagistrate, Kotkapura is his first posting after becoming IAS.Prof. (Dr.) Raj Bahadur, Vice Chancellor introduced him withall the subordinate officers of the University.

Dozens families join AAP,Banawali welcomes

KULWINDER KARWALSARDULGARH, AUG 23

Dozens of families left Akali Dal and Congress andjoined the Aam Aadmi Party under the leadership ofGurpreet Singh Banwali in Ahlupur village ofSardulgarh assembly constituency. Banawali assuredthat due respect and dignity will be given to thesefamilies. Speaking on the occasion, AdvocateGurpreet Singh Banawali, in-charge of the partyconstituency said that people are seeing the rule oftwo parties for a long time, and every time thoseparties forget their promises. He said Aam AadmiParty will not deceive the people. He said that with theformation of the Aam Aadmi Party government in thestate, new records of facilities and work will be set andthe needs which are beyond the reach of the poor andmiddle class today, will be ensured by the Aam AadmiParty. He honored the families who joined the partyon this occasion. The families who joined AAP underBanawali's leadership said they stood firm with theparty and had faith in the party's policies.

Roop Vatika celebrates‘Teej’ festival

SUKH NAHARJAGRAON, AUG 23

The students of Roop Vatika Senior secondaryschool celebrated the festival of "teej" with greatzeal and fervor in the school campus. Students camedressed up in traditional Punjabi attires to celebratethe festival. Telling more about this, schoolprincipal Vimmi Thakur said that the festival of teejcelebrates beauty of nature, arrival of rains andgreenery surrounded by social activities, rituals andcustoms. She further said that the school campuswas decorated with swings and other stuff related to"teej and girls from classes 1st to 12th danced to thetunes of traditional Punjabi songs and enthralledeveryone with their captivating performances.Several activities were included in the festival ofTeej to enhance the spirit of the festival. She alsoannounced Divyam as winner of modeling whileNamneet Kaur was given consolation prize. Schoolprincipal alongwith chief guest Rajpal Kaurcongratulated the winners and appreciated studentsfor their dedication.

Caste-based census will help in preparingwelfare schemes for people: Tejashwi

NEW DELHI, AUG 23

Leader of Opposition in BiharLegislative Assembly TejashwiYadav on Monday said the caste-based census will help inpreparing welfare schemes forpeople from different sections ofsociety. "Twice resolutions havebeen passed in Bihar Assemblyfor caste census in the state. Withsuch a census we can get datathat can help in preparingrelevant benefit schemes forpeople from different sections ofsociety," Yadav told mediapersons here. Meanwhile, themeeting between Prime MinisterNarendra Modi and thedelegation of 10 parties led byBihar Chief Minister NitishKumar to discuss a caste-basedcensus is underway in Delhi.

Besides Bihar Chief Minister,other members of the delegationinclude RJD's Tejashwi PrasadYadav, JD(U) leader VijayKumar Choudhary, who is alsothe minister for education andparliamentary affairs, formerChief Minister and President ofHindustani Awam Morcha(HAM) Jitan Ram Manjhi,Congress legislature party leaderAjeet Sharma and BJP leaderand Bihar minister Janak Ram,CPI-ML legislature party leaderMahboob Alam.

Passengers being transported illegallyby private numbered vehicles

AMIT KALIAZIRAKPUR, AUG 23

At the bus stand onChandigarh Ambala Roadnear Singhpura Chowk inZirakpur from where busesbound for Delhi are available,private number plate vehiclesare used to transportpassengers and transportthem illegally to Ambala,Delhi and many other places.According to the informationreceived, a local person fromZirakpur has madearrangements to park thevehicles with these privatenumber plates as taxis at busstand. They cost thesevehicles with private numberplates Rs.1200 to park thevehicle on bus stand and toavoid all other hassles. AndRs.200 per vehicle forloading passangers. To date,no action has been takenagainst them by the RTOdepartment or the trafficpolice. Make private vehiclestaxis and carryig passengersin them is illeagal and it costs

the government thousands ofrupees every day ascommercial yellow numberplates are levied by thegovernment on a special taxwhich is not levied onvehicles with private numberplates. The tax being leviedby the government on the thecommercial number platevehicles is being saved whichis costing the governmentthousands of rupees everyday. It is to be mentioned herethat a bench has been set up atthe bus stand by the peoplewho have arranged for privatenumbered vehicles to be usedas taxis. Rahul Chhabra,

Vinod Sharma and ShivamMishra, who were traveling toDelhi from the bus stand, saidthat private numbered vehiclescharge Rs. 500 per ride toDelhi and the passengers arepicked up and dropped off atthe Delhi border. They saidthat even in Delhi there is asystem of these people, withwhich they also bringpassengers from Delhi to hereillegally. They said that noaction was being taken againstthem by the police and despitethe deployment of policepersonnel at a short distance,the police administration wasunable to remove them.

Guru Nanak Dev University CollegePathankot takes out marathon on the

occasion of 75th Independence Day

RAJINDER SINGHPATHANKOT, AUG 23

Last day, a marathon race was organized to commemorate the75th anniversary of India's independence. About 100 NSSvolunteers from the college participated in this marathonrace.This marathon race was led by the principal of thecollege, Dr. Rakesh Mohan Sharma with a torch in his hand.In his address, Dr. Rakesh Mohan said that in his childhood,he used to read about the tales of Jung-e-Azadi and thesacrifices of the warriors. He told the students that we allhave to make India a powerful country by following theideals of our warriors. It is visible that in order to establishour coin in the Olympic Games, the 'Fit India' movement hasto reach door to door among the students. A scholar hasrightly said, "It is easy to be free but it is difficult to befree".He himself can never be free.Apart from the students,the college's Professor Vinayak Chadda, Dr. Aarti Gupta,Professor Subham Sharma, Professor Varun Sharma, Dr.Ashok Kumar and Dr. Nupur Gupta also contributed.

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Literature & Health

Lockdown, curfew, and social distancingPeople worldwide have

been affected byCOVID-19 which is

the fifth pandemic after the1918 flu pandemic. Peoplehave had their sense of nor-mality torn apart, and thesechanges have taken a tollon their mental health.

When the spread ofCOVID-19 began, the virusappeared to be containedwithin China and the cruiseship "Diamond Princess,"which formed the majorclusters of the virus. How-ever, as of April 2021, over210 countries and territo-ries are affected by thevirus.

India, with a populationof more than 1.38 billion-the second largest popula-tion in the world-had diffi-

culty in controlling thetransmission of severeacute respiratory syndromeCorona virus two among itspopulation. Multiple strate-

gies were vital to handlethe outbreak; these includecomputational modeling,statistical tools, and quanti-tative analyses to control

the spread and the rapid de-velopment of a new treat-ment.

The formidable out-break of Covid-19 expand-

ed globally, and India de-clared a complete lock-down on 23rd March 2020.India's massive Covid-19surge created a situation ofdilemma and panicamongst the people.

When the pandemicstarted, Dr. Dipesh Batrahad been working as a neu-rosurgeon for three years inPunjab, India. Before theonset, he had started afoundation named 'Lok Ja-grukta Foundation' (LJF)(people awareness founda-tion) in the year 2017.

Many patients on regu-lar medications, such asanti-epileptics, were lockedinside their houses with noaccess to healthcare facili-ties and medications. TheLJF team started receiving

hundreds of calls on a dailybasis for assistance. There-fore, they started door-to-door visitations after re-ceiving special permissionfrom the district deputycommissioner to performthese activities. The teamand the healthcare staffreached out to remote vil-lages with medicines andother necessary healthcareequipment. They made surethat all safety measures andprotocols were in place.

But soon, Dr. Dipesh,who was leading manysuch teams, realized thatproviding healthcare facili-ties was not enough. As pa-tient motivation and coun-seling was the need of thehour to contain the spreadof the virus, as people were

still on roads. Thus, hestarted a campaign titled,'My family, My responsi-bility' with the motto ofevery person encouragingthe whole family to stay athome. He uploaded numer-ous videos on social mediato spread the word. Manycelebrities came forwardand aided his campaign.The government of Maha-rashtra (Indian state) adopt-ed the same campaign fortheir state.

They planned to cover14 villages in 3 districts allover Punjab. There werearound 20,000 people indesperate need of medicalhelp. Volunteers were invit-ed to join the organization,and fortunately, youth cameforward to lend help in

need. Dr, Dipesh says, "We

were also fortunate to re-ceive a response from over-seas. Many supporters fromthe UK and the US sent usmessages, appreciating thework. That encouraged usto do even more. Alongwith providing help duringthe peak, it became moreimportant to continue ourprogram after the vaccinearrived on the scene."

The selfless service ofsuch doctors has kept Indiasafe from the possibleworse circumstances duringthe pandemic. We salutehim and his team for theirhard work.

Dipesh Batra M.D,MBBS, MS, Mch

EDITORIAL

Equal stakesIn a nation afflicted with entrenched gender-based

prejudices, it is the highest court of the land thathas shone as a beacon of hope for doing away

with such discrimination. It recently did so when itpulled up the Indian army for not allowing womento sit for the entrance examinations of the NationalDefence Academy, saying that such a “policy deci-sion... is based on gender discrimination”. This isnot the first time that the Supreme Court has had tointervene in decisions related to the rights and repre-sentation of women in the armed forces. In a land-mark verdict last year, it enabled women officers inthe army to get permanent commission and com-mand postings; it had also pulled up the Centre forits blatantly sexist arguments against women offi-cers. Among other things, the government had saidthat male officers would not want to ‘accept orders’from women and that the ‘inherent physiologicaldifferences’ between men and women render the lat-ter unfit for performance on a par with men.

It is a pity that the apex court has had to step inon different occasions to direct both the Union gov-ernment and the Indian army to give women theirdue as equal citizens. Neither the provision for per-manent commission nor the right of women to ap-pear for the NDA exams can be viewed as an unfairentitlement, especially when women personnel havealready proved their worth with their exemplary per-formances in the short service commission. Severalcountries with powerful militaries, such as the Unit-ed States of America and Israel, allow women in dif-ferent forms of active combat. In contrast, the Indianarmy — the world’s second-largest — still has an of-ficial ban on women taking on combat roles; womenalso comprise a paltry 3.8 per cent of the army’s per-sonnel. While common sense dictates that gallantryand displays of capability be rewarded with equalopportunities, the reluctance of both the Centre andthe army to do so only reinforces the belief that thestructural exclusion of women is the result of awider form of conservatism. This makes theSupreme Court’s recent stand encouraging; it maycreate a momentum in favour of fairer gender repre-sentation not just in the army but also in other insti-tutions. The judiciary’s consistent and progressivestance on such matters notwithstanding, uprootinggender disparities in India is a long-term challenge,one that can be confronted with the help of support-ive legislations by a political constituency receptiveto the need for equality.

Adam's CurseWe sat together at one summer’s end,That beautiful mild woman, your closefriend, And you and I, andtalked of poetry.I said, ‘A line will takeus hours maybe;Yet if it does not seema moment’s thought, Our stitching and unstitching has beennaught. Better go down upon your marrow-bones And scrub a kitchen pavement, orbreak stones Like an old pauper, in all kinds ofweather; For to articulate sweet sounds togetherIs to work harder than all these.

By: William Butler Yeats

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What are possible implications of US withdrawalfrom Afghanistan for Middle East countries?

The withdrawal of UStroops fromAfghanistan, fol-

lowed in a matter of daysby the collapse of the gov-ernment in Kabul, broughtmemories of the humiliat-ing US prestige fall ofSaigon in 1975 and sendshock waves all over theworld.

Germany's conserva-tive candidate to succeedChancellor Angela Merkel,Armin Laschet has calledthe withdrawal of forces"the greatest debacle thatNATO has experiencedsince its foundation."

Undoubtedly, the USwithdrawal will increasethe clout of Russia, China,Turkey, and Iran in theMiddle East as alternativeforces to the US and willsurely make many govern-ments in the Middle Eastreconsider their policies to-wards the US.

The US had sent troopsto Afghanistan 20 yearsago trying to overthrow, to-gether with several Afghantribes, the Taliban govern-ment that harboured the al-Qaeda terrorist organiza-tion which killed about3,000 people on 11 Sep-tember 2001. During thisperiod, the US Administra-tion spent a staggeringamount of about 2 trillionUS dollars in the waragainst the Taliban, but thecost of human lives wasmore staggering. Some70,000 Afghan military and50,000 civilians werekilled, while US casualties

numbered 2,500 men andthose of coalition partners1100. Later on, the Talibanwere defeated and a nation-al government was in-stalled, but following theannouncement of the USwithdrawal, Taliban fight-ers rapidly took control ofthe country and the nation-al government in Kabulcollapsed like a house ofcards.

What happened inAfghanistan may happenalso in Iraq, where the UShas supplied the militarywith sophisticatedweapons, aircraft, and mili-tary advisers. However, aswas shown in the case ofMosul in June 2014 some30,000 Iraqi soldiers werenot able to stop just 1,500ISIL fighters from taking

over the second biggestcity in the country.

Bilal Wahab, of theWashington Institute,draws a parallel betweenthe situation in Afghanistanand Iraq and points out thatthe United States had with-drawn in 2011 but had toreturn to Iraq to stop the Is-lamic State's onslaught andslaughter of Iraqis andadds: "The parallels be-tween Iraq and Afghanistanare easy to list.

Like Afghanistan, Iraqhas a divided governmentthat prioritizes patronagepolitics over competent se-curity force governanceand other government serv-ices.

If anything, the Iraqigovernment and the col-lapsed Afghan one compet-

ed over which was morecorrupt. Like inAfghanistan, the Iraqi gov-ernment and military areunwilling to stand up tounruly militias threateningIraq's sovereignty and sta-bility and attacking Iraqis."

Turkey, under its Is-lamist president Tayyip Er-dogan, tries, on the onehand, to expand its influ-ence in the region and gaina foothold in Afghanistanand, on the other, wants toavoid a new influx ofAfghan migrants.

As the country alreadyhosts millions of refugeesand a strong anti-migrantsentiment prevails inTurkey, Erdogan stressed afew days ago that "Turkeywon't become Europe's'refugee warehouse' for

Afghans fleeing the Tal-iban". It should be men-tioned that Ankara was car-rying negotiations with theUnited States to continueoperating the Kabul airportafter the withdrawal of theUS forces. The Taliban re-jected the idea, becauseTurkey was a member ofthe US coalition againstthem, although the 600Turkish troops inAfghanistan were in a non-combat role.

As a Shi'a-dominantcountry, Iran had a compli-cated relationship withmostly Sunni Afghanistanand had a long history ofideological differences andpolitical rivalry with theTaliban.

When the Taliban werein power in the late 1990s,Iran supported the anti-Tal-iban Northern Alliance, anon-Pashtun coalition ofother ethnic groups.

Tehran is certainlypleased with the fact thatthere are no US troops onits eastern borders but hasto worry about a possibleinflux of Afghan refugeesand will have to movethousands of soldiers toguard its borders.

Saudi Arabia had rec-ognized and supported theTaliban-controlled govern-ment in Afghanistan priorto the 9/11 terrorist attacks.After the removal of theTaliban, Saudi Arabia hadbeen one of the majorhelpers in the reconstruc-tion of Afghanistan. Forexample, the main highway

project was funded mainlyby the US and Saudi Ara-bia. The largest mosque inAfghanistan was also fi-nanced by Saudi Arabia.However, as Saudi CrownPrince Mohammed binSalman is currently ad-vancing modernization ef-forts in the country, thereare concerns that a chang-ing society could push dis-gruntled radicals into thearms of groups like the Tal-iban. Currently, the confi-dence Middle East govern-ments have concerningWashington's commitmentsand promises must be at anall-time low and there is nodoubt that countries likeRussia, China, Iran andTurkey will try to fill thevacuum created. After 20years, the United States re-alized that the war inAfghanistan was un-winnable. The big questionthat remains is that if themuch-touted US "War onTerror" is also unwinnable?

As Ibrahim Al-Marashi, assistant profes-sor at the California StateUniversity points out: "Inthe end, the US's war onterror, rather than eliminat-ing terror groups, led tothese groups gaining morepower.

Moreover, with theTaliban's resurgence overthe past weekend, there is astrong possibility that al-Qaeda will also re-emergein the country. Al-Qaeda'soffshoot, ISIL, meanwhile,still persists both inAfghanistan and Iraq."

Cats prefer free foodrather than working for itDuring a new study, re-

searchers at the Universityof California, Davis, School

of Veterinary Medicine found thatcats would rather eat from a tray ofeasily available food rather thanwork out a simple puzzle to gettheir meal. This showed that mostdomestic cats choose not to workfor their food, a behaviour calledcontra freeloading.

When given the choice be-tween a free meal and performing atask for a meal, cats would preferthe meal that doesn't require mucheffort. While that might not comeas a surprise to some cat lovers, itdoes to cat behaviourists. Most ani-mals prefer to work for their food.The study was published in thejournal Animal Cognition.

"There is an entire body of re-search that shows that most speciesincluding birds, rodents, wolves,primates- even giraffes- prefer towork for their food," said lead au-thor Mikel Delgado, a cat behav-iourist and research affiliate at UC

Davis School of Veterinary Medi-cine. "What's surprising is out ofall these species cats seem to be theonly ones that showed no strongtendency to contra freeload."

In the study, Delgado, alongwith co-authors Melissa Bain andBrandon Han of the UC DavisSchool of Veterinary Medicine,provided 17 cats with a food puzzleand a tray of food. The puzzle al-lowed the cats to easily see thefood but required some manipula-tion to extract it.

Unemployment in Haryana: Facts and MythsHaryana is at 3rd position in nation-

wide ranking in terms of ease ofdoing business and the leader in

North India with 7 operational SEZs andan additional 23 formally approved SEZs(20 already notified and 3 in-principal ap-proval).

Haryana is one of the leading statesin terms of industrial production, espe-cially passenger car two-wheelers, mo-bile cranes, and tractors. Haryana is apreferred destination for auto ma-jors and auto-component manu-facturers. The state is host tomany large automotive players.The state produces two-thirds ofpassenger cars, 50% of tractors,60% of motorcycles, and 50% ofthe refrigerators manufactured inthe country.

Automobiles and auto com-ponent exports from Haryanawere about US$ 1.070.81 million in FY20and have reached US$ 515.3 million inFY21. Haryana along with states like Ma-harashtra and Tamil Nadu are consideredhubs for manufacturing automobiles andrelated parts in India. Leading automak-ers like Maruti Suzuki India Ltd, Hero Mo-toCorp Ltd, Honda Motorcycle andScooter India Ltd have factories in placeslike Gurgaon and Manesar.

The northern cluster is around theNational Capital Region and contributes32% of total automobile production. Gur-gaon and Manesar, in Haryana, arewhere the country's largest car manufac-turer, Maruti Suzuki, is based, and still,about 29% of people in Haryana are un-employed in July 2021 according to a re-port of CMIE. Haryana is basically anagrarian state and constitutes only 1.5%of India's area, yet contributes 15% of itsagricultural produce, which has grown 7times since the foundation of Haryana in1966. About 86% of the area in the state

is arable and of that 96% is cultivated.About 75% of the area is irrigated.Haryana's agricultural GDP contributionto the nation's agricultural GDP is 14.1%.Haryana is the ‘Basket of Food grain’ andbowl of rice, having a lion’s (63%) sharein Basmati exports and contributes 7% ofIndia's agricultural exports, which placesHaryana in 14th place on the list of Indi-an states and union territories by GDPbehind only much bigger states that are

significantly larger in both area andpopulation.

But, according to the data pub-lished by the Centre for MonitoringIndian Economy (CMIE), in themonth of April, Haryana has report-ed the highest rate of unemploymentin the country. The unemploymentrate was reported to be 35.1% forApril 2021 and 29% for the month ofAugust. Other states like Rajasthan,

Delhi, and Goa have unemploymentrates above 25%. Overall, India's unem-ployment rate stands at 8% on 12 August2021, with Urban unemployment of10.2%. Nearly one-fourth of Haryana’sworkforce employable over the age of 15was jobless at the end of 2019. Educatedpeople in the urban areas took a biggerhit, the CMIE found.

Around 20 lakh people are in thestate who are willing to work but are un-employed. The national average was 6.9percent.sIn urban areas, more than 23%of the workforce was without any em-ployment compared to 21% in rural ar-eas, and age-wise unemployment distri-bution shows, that fresh graduates anddrop-outs in their early twenties are thejob seekers. Analysis of unemploymentalso found a huge gap between the gen-der. While 18% of the male workforcewas found jobless and at the same time,about 66% of employable females werejobless. In fact, the other way around is

that the unemployment rate is increasingin Haryana and it is among one of thewealthiest and most economically devel-oped regions of India, then what are thereasons for this contradiction. Unemploy-ment is Perhaps the biggest problemHaryana facing today. The major reasonbehind this problem is, as Haryana is ba-sically an agrarian economy and morepeople are engaged in agriculture fieldsthan required (disguised unemployment),as they don’t want to leave their comfortzone until and unless they got any govt.job.

The second major reason is thattechnical education institutes have mush-roomed all over the state, but the qualityof education is low. We need more pro-fessional course institutes and technicaleducation institutes to make our youthskilled and qualified workers.

We were in need of an employmentgeneration strategy to combat the highunemployment rate. Govt. have to plan atechnical education strategy so that thesupply of quality workers should be ac-cording to the demand of industries.Moreover, industries should be decen-tralized so that people get work near theirhometowns.

Out of total unemployed,2 to 2.5percent are those who remain unem-ployed for a brief period, eg. while chang-ing jobs or for a few months after com-pletion of their graduation. About 8 to 9percent are in the category of seasonaland disguised unemployment. A hugepercentage are unemployed because ofthe factors impacted by the COVID andlockdown situation which can be over-come in the near future if govt. will makea perfect strategy to regenerate employ-ment.

Dr.Harvinder KaurAssistant professor in Economics

S.D.College Ambala

URUGRAM/ FARIDABAD : From the house of Tata Consumer Products, Tetley, one of the world’s most Gloved tea globally, disrupts the green tea category in

India with a unique innovation- Tetley Immune with the goodness of antioxidant rich green tea, now comes with added vitamin C. Vitamin C is known to help support Immune system. Tetley Green Tea Immune is available in four exciting variants, (Classic, Lemon & Honey, Ginger Mint & Lemon and Mango variant), to ensure rejuvenation in every sip. It is available across channels online and offline. As part of the new communication, the brand has launched a new TVC e n c a p s u l a t i n g #LagoBaaharSeFitAurAndarSeBhiThe new communication, conceptualized by Lowe Lintas, uses a visual device of a ‘Bubble’ to bring out the element of doubt that people are feeling regarding their fitness. It shows the protagonist going for her morning run and encountering various people who are going through their morning activities. However, the twist in the TVC is that they are all in a ‘bubble’, which represents the ‘sense of doubt’ about the aspect of not doing enough to feel fit. The protagonist then gives a strong message that to step out of the ‘bubble of doubt’ and that conventional fitness regime may need to be combined with focus on feeling fit from inside too.

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CHANDIGARH/JALANDHAR: Skechers, The Comfort Technology Company™, has launched the sixth iteration of its widely successful walking shoes, GO WALK 6 in India. The GO WALK 6 collection features a lightweight ULTRA GO® cushioning midsole and high-rebound Hyper Pillar Technology™ for added support. The new collection of GO WALK 6 footwear builds on the company’s efforts to develop the walking category in India over the years through the previous editions of the GO WALK line. Speaking on the launch of the GO WALK 6 collection, Mr. Rahul Vira, CEO, Skechers, South Asia Pvt. Ltd. said, ‘’Skechers is a comfort technology company and has always created products around this core proposition. The launch of the GO WALK 6 collection will elevate the existing category of walking shoes to a superior level and provide a product that will be an essential part of our customers walking journey.

Skechers India launches GO WALK 6

handigarh, : After celebrating real heroism with #PalatDe campaign at Tokyo Olympics 2020, The Coca-CCola Company’s home-grown brand - Thums Up, has

now become the first FMCG brand to partner with the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. Through this partnership, Thums Up

aims to encourage inclusion and salute the real heroes of Tokyo 2020 who continuously strive to break the glass ceiling despite the challenges and are now representing India at this prestigious global sporting event. The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games will be held in Tokyo from August 24 to September 5. The Coca-Cola Company has a long history of sponsoring major sporting events around the world. Through an eight-decade association, it is the longest continuous corporate partner of the Olympic Games. This year marks the beginning of the

brand’s association with Paralympic Games. These associations with sporting events underscore the company’s philosophy of endeavoring to be a part of the joyous moments and occasions of its consumers.

Thums Up Salutes the Strength andResilience of Paralympic Athletes

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CSC and Vodafone Idea Foundation Join Hands for COVID-19 Vaccination of Vulnerable Sections

olkata, August 23rd 2021: iLEAD in a first ever initiative is providing an opportunity to the media and film students to experience and learn every Kaspect of filmmaking practically on the floor. The institute, which is

recognized as the 4th best media college in India as per KPMG, will be producing a feature length Hindi commercial film titled as ‘Before You Die’ with students who will be taking admission in the 2021 batch of media science and film courses. Mr.

Pradip Chopra, Chairman of iLEAD, said, “The entire creative industry of India, whether its film making, animation, script writing, music, costume designing, is dominated by the people from Bengal. However Bengal is not a significant player in this industry apart from being a substantial resource base as there is a lack of spirit of entrepreneurship, leadership and risk taking appetite. This is a gap we want to fill thus we are venturing into production of full length Hindi commercial film. We want to involve our students because they are extremely talented. So we want to use the talent of our institute to make world class cinema in the process they will get the kind of hands on experience and industry exposure which will enable them to evolve as true professionals as they pursue their studies. Our goal

is also to make Kolkata a good production centre, a hub of film making in times to come.” The film is to be directed by Suvendu Raj Ghosh. It will star veteran actors like Mukesh Rishi, Zarina Wahab and Mushtaq Khan. The film will witness the debut of actors Puneet Raj Sharma and Kavya Kashyap, who will be playing the male and female protagonists in the movie.

HDFC Bank aims to regain credit card market share in 3-4 quarters

HANDIGARH/ LUDHIANA: HDFC Bank, India’s largest credit card issuer, Ctoday announced that it is aiming to

add five lakh new credit cards to its portfolio every month beginning February 2022. This will enable it to regain its market share and cement its leadership position in the credit card issuing business in the next 9 to 12 months. "The last few months have been spent in readying ourselves for the future. When the restrictions from the regulator were in place, we utilised the time to chalk out a new strategy. With our new offerings as well as our existing suite of cards, we are confident of meeting the needs of our customers and ‘come back with a bang’.” said Mr Parag Rao, Group Head – Payments, Consumer Finance, Digital Banking & IT, HDFC Bank. HDFC Bank has over 20 initiatives which will hit the market in the next 6 to 9 months to drive this growth. These include the launch of new co-branded cards with the who’s who of Corporate India spanning pharma, travel, FMCG, hospitality, telecom and fintech.

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he overall wellness of the body shares an intimate relationship with nutrition. TIn current times, the role of accurate

nutrition in people’s life is becoming extremely crucial with each passing day in order to be healthy physically, mentally, and emotionally. Dubai and Delhi-based culinary nutrition coach Eshanka Wahi, owner of ‘Eat Clean with Eshanka’ tells that lack of required nutrition affects physical health, mental health, and the quality of sleep too.Finding The Co-RelationNutrition and sleep play an essential role in our health. However somehow, the complex yet intimate relationship is frequently overlooked, notes the nutrition coach. She says, “We need to be aware of the fact that there are certain foods and drinks that can make it easier or more difficult to get a deep sleep that one requires.” She elaborates on the connection between the two, “Consuming weight gain, tooth decay, inflammation, and of sleep” Wahi points out. Vitamin D foods that are low in fibre, low in signals more externally. “In the long term, deficiency lowers our immune function, nutrients, but high in saturated fats and poor nutrition completely attacks the overall influences muscle pain, and joint aches, and sugar throughout the day is directly linked health internally, which may cause irregular is also linked with low mood and emotional with lighter sleep.” Foods that are harder blood pressure, diabetes, heart diseases, and problems. “Such deficiencies change our to digest cause disruptive sleep patterns, even life-threatening diseases. Poor nutrition sleep patterns and quality for the worse. It is she says. “Food choices made during the also impairs our daily health and wellbeing crucial to up these nutrients, for the proper day directly impact the quality of sleep. reducing the ability to lead a full and active functioning of the brain, supporting Excessive sugar will cause disruptive life,” she adds. All this can also add to lack of cardiovascular health including red blood sleep patterns. Eating certain foods rich in sleep indirectly too. cell formation, and supporting DNA activity. magnesium and potassium helps in Nutrition directly impacts hormone secretion These are actively involved in regulating producing melatonin and serotonin both of that can impact the quality of sleep. “Taking sleep-wake cycles and help to keep circadian which are sleep regulators.” foods high in magnesium, vitamin D, and rhythms in sync,” she tells.How To Achieve Lack Of Nutrition And Overall Health vitamin B12 can enhance serotonin and Better Quality SleepWahi notes that in the short term, poor melatonin production and GABA Wahi shares tips for what to eat, and what nutrition contributes to stress spikes, anxiety, neurotransmitters, which improve the quality not to, to ensure good quality sleep.poor gut health, skin irritations, lower stamina,

handigarh : Renowned Bathware brand Hindware, today launched the second leg of its successful marketing campaign - ‘Thoughtful is Beautiful.’ The Ccampaign features Hindware’s newly launched touch free products including

sensor-based faucets and water closets that have been designed to enable better safety and hygiene in households across India amidst the ongoing pandemic. Featuring touchfree products, the new TVC focus on showcasing innovative

performance-led product solutions that offer convenience to consumers. The films build further on the premise of the earlier campaign bringing together design and functionality, to offer uber chic technological solutions that are designed to ease the consumer’s life. Sandip Somany, Chairman & Managing Director, Brilloca Limited said, “As a company, we are centered around innovation and strive to create unique product offerings that can add value to our consumer’s lives. During the pandemic, there has been a shift in consumer preferences and hygiene and safety have become the leading points of consideration. Consumers are now more interested in buying smart solutions when it comes to bathware and faucets as there is a greater focus on health and hygiene. Besides this, as consumers become more environment conscious, there is also an inclination to opt for products that are more

sustainable and conserve water."Sudhanshu Pokhriyal, Chief Executive Officer, Bath Business, Brilloca, said, “Hindware is known for its innovative approach, functionality and visual appeal. But as the times change and the world around us rapidly evolves, we are also seeing an accelerated demand for touchless and contactless products, to enable better safety across homes.

handigarh: The Monsoon store is live on Amazon.in until Aug 31, 2021. Customers can get a host of exciting offers and deals on Cmonsoon essentials, beauty and grooming products, health and

hygiene, appliances, smartphones, kitchen essentials, books and much more. As customers are enjoying the monsoon season already, they can look forward to top deals and offers from Lakme and Garnier cosmetics, skin and hair care products respectively to keep their skin glowing and hair smooth. Additionally, to keep the immunity at an all-time high consumer can get great offers on the Cadbury Bournvita collection and much more across various categoriesCustomers can also use their voice to access the 'Monsoon Store' using Alexa on the Amazon shopping app (Android only). Users can tap the mic icon on the app and say - "Alexa, go to the Monsoon Store" and land directly on the store. Wildcraft Red Hypadry Unisex Rain Jacket - Suit up for the monsoons with the self-packable rain cheater suit from Wildcraft. It's waterproof up to 2000mm and comes with sealed seams to keep you protected from moisture. It also features double flap pockets to keep your essentials dry and safe. Get this for INR 1,799. Flipzon Ironing Board with Iron Stand is made up of great quality and provides three different height settings which makes ironing convenient.

Tetley India redefines the green tea category With the launch of ‘green tea immune’

"Alexa, say Hello to Amitabh Bachchan" Amit ji’s voice, now live on Alexa

handigarh : On his special day, entrepreneur Akash Kumar announced the launch of his three new ventures – ANN Media, CBeing Hungry and AASSHH-E- Commerce. The

announcement was made at a grand event held in Delhi recently. Gracing the event with her presence, was none other than Bollywood actress Gauahar Khan.Gauahar has been a part of several hit movies such as Ishaqzaade, Begum Jaan and recently released 14 Phere, to name a few. The actress was seen interacting with Akash and his team at the event. Gauahar congratulated Akash on his achievements as she joined him in the cake cutting session. Popular singer Deep Money was also present at the event. Voice Of Delhi, Gaurav Kumar too made his presence at the grand event.Speaking at the event, Akash Kumar said, “I feel blessed and overwhelme with the love that my friends and family have always showered on me. It’s a special day for me as I have launched three new start-ups. We are growing and will soon be venturing into various other fields. I just want to say thanks to all my well-wishers and hope they keep blessing me with their good wishes.”The other ventures of Akash Kumar include a music label by the name ‘Being Musical’ (Being Musical Records), an NGO called ‘Being Heart Foundation’.

Gauahar Khan and other celebs attend Akash Kumar’s Birthday Bash

Hindware launches the second leg of its Iconic campaign, ‘thoughtful is beautiful’

URUGRAM/ HISAR : The Common Services Centers, under the Ministry of GElectronics & IT, has partnered with

Vodafone Idea Foundation, the CSR arm of Vi, for registration of citizens to receive vaccination against the deadly COVID-19 virus. The initiative will focus on vulnerable and disadvantaged communities. The CSC Academy, the CSR & Education wing of CSC, will facilitate registration and scheduling of one million beneficiaries for vaccination across the country through the Village Level Entrepreneurs (VLEs). The VLEs will act as a focal point for identifying and reaching out to ageing population, slum dwellers, daily wage workers, etc. Elaborating on the partnership, Dr. Dinesh Tyagi, Managing Director, CSC SPV, said: “CSC has always stepped in to support social initiatives undertaken for the benefit of citizens. Registration of citizens on CoWin App is one such activity that CSC has undertaken as part of our commitment to provide inclusive healthcare to all. Our partnership with Vodafone Idea Foundation will help us reach out to the most marginalized and disadvantaged communities across the country and get them registered for vaccination under CoWin App and strengthen the Government’s fight against COVID-19.”

HANDIGARH/LUDHIANA: Following a grand unveil at the Auto Expo 2020 Cas the H2X Concept, Tata Motors is

now gearing up to launch the newest addition to its SUV lineup. The Company has christened this highly anticipated SUV as ‘PUNCH’. Leading up to its national launch this festive season, Tata Motors has today officially unveiled the PUNCH, its first SUV built on ALFA-ARC (Agile Light Flexible Advanced Architecture), developed under Impact 2.0 design language. Designed for the next generation users, the Tata ‘PUNCH’ is a no-compromise SUV, offering an exciting mix of tough utility with sporting dynamics and epitomises what a characterful SUV should be. It is bold, young, modern yet robust, compact yet practical, tough yet playful and exudes true expression of confidence and individuality. Unveiling this much-awaited SUV, Mr. Shailesh Chandra - President, Passenger Vehicle Business Unit, Tata Motors said – “Tata PUNCH, as the name suggest is an energetic vehicle with a capability to go anywhere. Light on its feet and strong in its caliber, this is a vehicle which truly punches above its weight. With the perfect combination of stunning design, technology and driving dynamics.

Tata Motors names its upcoming SUV as ‘PUNCH’

HANDIGARH/KARNAL: Lenovo, the global technology leader, Crecently announced its ‘Lenovo

Aware’ smart learning solution for consumers, which will come pre-bundled with the latest generation of IdeaPad Slim 3i and IdeaPad Slim 5i laptops. Lenovo Aware software aims to support a superior remote learning experience by addressing a few of the digital challenges brought to light this past year during lockdown, such as how to keep young students focused and motivated while engaged in online classes and improve their digital well-being. Dinesh Nair, Head of Consumer Business, Lenovo India said, “Lenovo has been committed to education with the help of smarter technology and its been making strides through new hardware, software solutions, CSR outreach and much more over the years for our customers.

HDFC Bank aims to regain credit card market share in 3-4 quarters

himla, : HDFC Bank, India’s largest credit card issuer, today announced that it is Saiming to add five lakh new credit cards

to its portfolio every month beginning February 2022. This will enable it to regain its market share and cement its leadership position in the credit card issuing business in the next 9 to 12 months. HDFC Bank has over 20 initiatives which will hit the market in the next 6 to 9 months to drive this growth. These include the launch of new co-branded cards with the who’s who of Corporate Indiaspanning pharma, travel, FMCG, hospitality, telecom and fintech. The bank has also revamped its existing range of cards over the past 9 months andis also ready with strategic partnerships with new companies. The new and enhanced suite of credit card products will have something for everyone from the mass market to the ultra-premium segments. There will be tailored products for customers to meet their evolving needs."The last few months have been spent in readying ourselves for the future. When the restrictions from the regulator were in place, we utilised the time to chalk out a new strategy. With our new offerings as well as our existing suite of cards.

Canara Robeco Mutual Fund to launch Value Fund NFO from August13 to August 27

handigarh : Canara Robeco Asset Management Company Limited Cannounces the launch of their new

fund offer (NFO), Canara Robeco Value Fund - an open-ended equity scheme that would follow a value investment strategy, to invest in businesses that are trading at a price less than their intrinsic values and are expected to realise their true worth in the future. The new scheme, Canara Robeco Value Fund, using the most suitable valuation technique, would identify and select undervalued businesses, based on various financial parameters as well as the valuation techniques for arriving at the company’s Intrinsic Value. Canara Robeco Value Fund would then construct portfolio keeping in mind opportunity size and risk limits defined for the portfolio. The portfolio construction process will be aided by various in-house quant models with an aim to invest in businesses that have potential to do well due to robust fundamentals. Canara Robeco Value Fund would take significant exposure into equities.

How lack of nutrition impacts the quality of sleep

ICICI Bank Germany launches Blocked Account* for Indian students

URUGRAM : ICICI Bank Germany, a part of ICICI Bank, today announced the launch Gof a digital and instant Blocked Account* for

students aspiring to study in Germany. A Blocked Account* is a special type of account wherein students are required to keep a certain amount of money in order to get a Balance Confirmation Certificate (BCC), a mandatory requirement for a student Visa in Germany. Only banks, which are authorized by German Federal Foreign Office, can offer the Blocked Account*. The new ‘ICICI Bank Germany Student Blocked Account’ enables students to deposit the required amount with the Bank and get the BCC. Students can open this account online from the comfort of their homes in India before their Visa applications, without visiting an ICICI Bank branch. This account offers students a complimentary Current Account, that they can use in Germany. It also comes with a VISA debit card which can be used anywhere in the world. The debit card will be delivered to the students at their address in India before they leave for Germany. ICICI Bank Germany is the first bank to offer the dual advantage of a completely digital ‘Blocked Account’ and a complimentary Current Account to students. It is a marked improvement from the existing industry practice where students typically open these accounts with two different banking entities and can open the Current Account.

handigarh: Sonalika has launched its new ‘Sonalika Agro Solutions’ tractor Cand implement rental app to bridge

the gap between farmers and hi-tech farm machinery – from land preparations to harvesting. The platform connects the farmers with a huge range of machinery renters that offer high tech agricultural implements on rent within their vicinity. The farmers can choose from various options available as per their convenience and requirement. ‘Sonalika Agro Solutions’ tractor and implement rental app supports the farmers to do farming in an effective way by making the right farm machinery available at right time. This app also assists the skilled operators in the area to check out employment opportunities and earn better living for their family. ‘Sonalika Agro Solutions’ app for will create an additional source of earning for the farmers who are owing agriculture implements as they can register themselves as freelancer renter.

‘Sonalika Agro Solutions tractor and implement rental app’ launched

himla, : Skechers, The Comfort Technology Company™, has Slaunched the sixth iteration of its

widely successful walking shoes, GO WALK 6 in India. The GO WALK 6 collection features a lightweight ULTRA GO® cushioning midsole and high-rebound Hyper Pillar Technology™ for added support. The new collection of GO WALK 6 footwear builds on the company’s efforts to develop the walking category in India over the years through the previous editions of the GO WALK line. The new collection launches at a critical juncture when the relevance of walking has never been more. Skechers GO WALK 6 has been designed to give consumers the ultimate walking experience with comfort technologies created specifically for the activity. The collection’s Hyper Pillar Technology offers premium comfort and rebound while walking. Each pair is designed with an Air-Cooled Goga Mat™ insole and an athletic upper for a comfort-driven experience. A flexible tapered design allows the Hyper Pillar Technology to be seen in action between the ULTRA GO midsole foam.

Skechers India continues championing walking with the launch of GO WALK 6

Finland’s Learning Platform, "Eduten" launched

handigarh, Leisure Zone defeated Terrace Zone by 11 runs in a Cleague match on the first day of

'UTCA Domestic Cricket Tournament 2021-22', thanks to Manan Vohra's scintillating 78 runs off 55 balls. Terrace Zone won the toss and decided to field first. Played at Cricket Stadium, Sector 16, Leisure Zone managed 152 runs in the stipulated 17 overs at the loss of six wickets wherein Raman Bishnoi also scored 36 runs off 23 balls.Ankit Chaudhary took two wickets while Arjun Azad and Bhagminder Lather clinched one wicket each. In reply, Terrace Zone was restricted at 141 runs for the loss of six wickets. Top scorer Ankit Chaudhary scored 47 runs off 30 balls. Arjun Azad contributed 38 while Gaurav Puri gathered 37 runs. Jagjit Singh and Ajay Sharma took two wickets each while Rahul Sharma consoled with one wicket. With this win, Leisure Zone bagged four points.In another match of the day played at GMSS School, Sector 26, Plaza Zone defeated Rock Zone by eight wickets in a one-sided match affair. Plaza Zone decided to field first after winning the toss. The Rock Zone team led by Mohammad Arslan Khan, could not deliver much with the bat and were restricted at 119 runs for the loss of six wickets in stipulated twenty overs.

Shining with bats, Manan and Sarul steers victories

for their teams

handigarh: Eduten, Finland’s number one math learning platform, today announced its official launch at a launch event held at CChandigarh Press Club here. Eduten Playground is a gamified

and adaptive AI-based math system that comes with a content library of more than 200,000 pedagogically high-quality online tasks for students between the ages of 6 to 15. Finland Math includes Eduten Playground, a gamified and AI-based exercise platform that provides a scientifically proven improvement on learning results, teacher wellbeing and student motivation. Eduten Playground is the most popular digital math tool among Finnish teachers, used in 56% of schools in Finland, which is now being introduced in Chandigarh and other parts of the country. “We have had great success bringing the best Finnish edtech tools to more than 40 countries so far, and I’m excited to get started in India next. We have a great team in India, poised to spread Finland Math across the country fast”, said, Henri Muurimaa, CEO, Eduten. The project will take 4 weeks and includes the following phases: Teacher training: Eduten trains the participating teachers in philosophy of Finnish education and usage of Eduten Playground in their classrooms; 4 weeks of pilot use:

handigarh : Amazon today announced the availability of India’s first celebrity voice feature on Alexa with the Clegendary icon of Indian cinema - Mr. Amitabh Bachchan.

Indian customers can choose to add Amit ji’s voice to their Alexa experience on Echo devices or by pressing the mic icon on the

Amazon shopping app (Android only) for an introductory price of INR 149 for one year. J u s t s a y “ A l e x a , introduce me to Amitabh Bachchan” to start the purchase and interact with Mr. Bachchan’s voice using the wake word ‘Amit ji’. Enjoy original and specially

curated content handpicked by Mr. Amitabh Bachchan The celebrity experience features content handpicked by Mr. Bachchan - stories from his life, a selection of poems by his father, tongue twisters, motivational quotes, and more. In addition to this unique and entertaining content, customers can also ask for music, set alarms and get weather updates in Mr. Bachchan’s signature style. For other tasks like shopping, general information, routines, smart home control, skills, and more, there’s Alexa.

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Raj Mason hangshimself from the fanRAJINDER SINGHPATHANKOT: Ruplal, 55, a resident ofvillage Padia Lahadi, ended his life byhanging himself from a fan.Thedeceased's son Gaurav Kumar told thathis father's mental condition was notgoing well for a few days.On the day ofRakshabandhan, mother went toBharoli to tie rakhi to his mama, whileelder brother also went to tie rakhi withsister-in-law. Papa and he were alonein the house. When Gaurav came backhome after cleaning the temple atseven o'clock in the evening, he sawthat his father's body was hanging fromthe fan.Gaurav immediately took off hisfather with the help of neighbors andtook him to the government hospital.He died there after some time. Policestation Sujanpur in-charge said thatafter registering a case, action hasbeen taken against 174 and the bodyhas been handed over to the relatives.\

GAMC students tieRakhi to BSF soldiersRAJ SADOSHABOHAR: The Department of HomeScience in Gopichand Arya MahilaCollege celebrated the festival of RakshaBandhan at the Sector headquarters ofBorder Security Force here. Programcoordinator Paridhi Kataria said thatRaksha Bandhan festival was celebratedwith great enthusiasm with the bravesoldiers who protect us day and night atthe border. “Our aim was that on thisjoyous occasion, they should not feel theabsence of sisters, so college girlsreached BSF Campus and made themfeel like family by tying a protectivethread on the wrists of the soldiers, sheadded. Principal Dr. Rekha Sood Handawhile congratulating the department onthe successful event said that BSFpersonnel are stationed at all times awayfrom their homes in the security of thecountry, so it is our duty to share suchhappiness and provide them home likeatmosphere on such occasions. Shecongratulated all soldiers also. NeerajMehta, Asha and Vishal Prajapati madevaluable contribution in the function. Pb govt committed for all rounddevelolment of farmers, CM tohead meeting tomorrow, saysAgriculture Commissioner JALANDHAR: Punjab government is fullycommitted for overall development of thecane growers of the state besidesresolving all their concerns on top-priority.Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singhwill preside over a meeting with canegrowers on Tuesday at 3 PM inChandigarh. Stating this here after ameeting held with cane growers, Punjab’sCommissioner Agriculture Dr.BalwinderSingh Sidhu said that detaileddeliberations were taken place withfarmers at district administrative complex,where their all genuine concerns werealso heard patiently. He also mentionedthat on most of the issues, a consensusbetween government and farmers hadevolved while there are still differences onsome issues, which were expected to beresolved in tomorrow's meeting with theChief Minister. He described today'smeeting as a step in the right direction toend the ongoing agitation of the farmers.Prominent among other present on theoccasion included Director Agriculture &Farmers Development Punjab Dr.Sukhdev Singh Sidhu, Caneommissioner, Punjab Dr. Gurvinder Singh.

Preneet Kaur inauguratesAdmin block of Govt Bikramcollege of commerce

SUMER GARGPATIALA: Former Minister of ExternalAffairs and member of parliament (MP),from Patiala lok sabha Parliamentsegment, Preneet Kaur, yesterday,inaugurated the Admin block andconnecting corridor of Govt. Bikramcollege of commerce, Patiala, whichwas built under Rashtriya UchchatarShiksha Abhiyan at a cost of Rs. 64Lakh. The ceremony came inconjunction with the start of theacademic session 2021-2022 andwas attended by the staff membersand the students of the college.Preneet Kaur applauded the collegefor being one of the leading college inthe field of commerce, not only inPunjab but in the entire north India.She appreciated the efforts of thecollege Principal Prof. (Dr.) KusumLata and staff for efficiently managingthe curricular and co-curricularactivities of the college during theexisting pandemic situation andwished for the bright future of thestudents. She said that establishing e-office in the Admin Block is the direneed in the present day scenario.College Principal Prof.(Dr.) KusumLata said, "an e-office is going to be setup in this newly built Admin Block".

Global education fair to be held on Aug 27RAVI KUMARBABAIN: Chaitanya Career Consultant, Ladwa, will hold a Global Education Fair atGathbandhan Palace, located on Indri Marg, here on August 27. This information wasshared by Rajeev Sharma, Director of Chetanya Career Consultant, Ladwa, while talkingto reporters here. He said that this is a golden opportunity for the children who want tomake their career by going abroad. He said that in this fair, representatives of collegesand universities of more than 50 countries will gather at the same place. He said thatstudents desirous of going abroad can decide according to their ability and qualification, in which area theycan go, how to go there and what formalities will have to be completed. He said that children can get theirdoubts resolved by interacting with representatives from colleges or universities coming from abroad. He saidthat such a big fair has not been held at this level till now. He said that any child who wants to study abroadcan participate in this fair free of cost.

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Chairman Geja Ram visits villageLamma, Lakha with huge convoySUKH NAHARJAGRAON, AUG 23

Punjab Safai Karamchari commissionChairman Geja Ram made a solid visitto Hathoor's villages Lakha and Lammawith a huge convoy escalating hisactivities in the area before VidhanSabha elections. Chairman Geja Ramwho is also the leading claimant ofJagraon seat of congress for VidhanSabha elections personally met thevillage residents, listened to theirproblems and concerned and solvedmany issues at the spot and noted downthe remaining ones. In his address, GejaRam said that he will be dedicated to hisduties if given a chance by highcommand to contest election fromJagraon and will lead party to victory inJagraon constituency. He further saidthat congress party has invested croresof rupees in the area for developmentworks and beatification which shows

the congress government is impartialand wants development across the entirestate equally. He mentioned that he hasbeen given the duty to listen to theproblems of people and help them ingetting rid of their inconveniences. Headded that people are free to contacthim and his team in case of any needand assured that he is eager to servepeople and will always be dedicated tohis duty. Youth leaders Manjeet SinghLakha and Harmel Singh Dhillonhonored Chairman Geja Ram andthanked him and his convoy for visitingthe area.

SUSHIL PANDITYAMUNANAGAR, AUG 23

Work done by the Haryana Red CrossCommittee during the Corona period is beingappreciated not only in the country but alsoabroad. Haryana General Secretary DRSharma, who is leading the committeeefficiently, and his team are working inspiredby public service and national service. Thecommittee has established another dimensionin the range of its services. Keeping in viewthe possible third wave of Corona, all thepreparations have been completed by theIndian Red Cross Society, Haryana. In thisregard, two new ambulances have beenpurchased by the Red Cross, this ambulance isequipped with all modern facilities. Last day,Haryana Red Cross President and GovernorBandaru Dattatreya dedicated this ambulancefor public interest from Raj Bhavan andformally flagged it off. Out of these, oneambulance will be given to PGI Chandigarhfor the service of patients, while the otherambulance will be dedicated to serve theelderly in the old age home of Red Cross,Panchkula. Governor Dattatreya expressedconfidence that both the ambulances would

prove useful for the needy people. TheGovernor said that the Red Cross is fullydedicated to public service. He said that theRed Cross Committee has done a great job indefeating the second wave of Corona. Thesecond wave of corona was overcome withthe same enthusiasm shown by the volunteersof Red Cross in donating blood as well asdonating plasma. Speaking on the occasion,DR Sharma, General Secretary, Haryana RedCross Society said that one ambulance hasbeen procured by the organization from itsown sources while the other ambulance hasbeen dedicated by SS Kaushal, a life memberof Red Cross Society, in the memory of hismartyr son Captain Rohit Kaushal.

Effigy of PM burntover agricultural laws

and rising inflation

AJAY ARORAKHAMANON, AUG 23

Today, a protest march was organized at Khamanonunder the leadership of Congress leader KuldeepSingh Sidhupur over the anti-farm law enacted bythe Central Government. On this occasion, theyouth were holding placards of Mehgai Kam Karoin their hands. There were different types of sloganswritten on the placards. The youth raised slogansagainst the Centre on the occasion and an effigy ofPrime Minister Narendra Modi was burnt after amarch in the city. Speaking on the occasion,Kuldeep Singh Sidhupur said that unless the highprices of diesel and petrol are not rolling back andthe three black laws imposed by the Modi govern-ment are not repealed, they will continue to fight.

Railway road encroachmentscreate problem in Taraori

RAMLAL SHARMATARAORI, AUG 23

Due to the presence of wheat special train atTarawari railway station, the road throughwhich hundreds of trucks come to the stationhas been encroached upon by slum dwellersand roadside vegetable sellers.

It may be mentioned that wheat special isheld at Tarawari railway station for about 20to 25 days in a month, in which thegovernment wheat is loaded. During this,hundreds of trucks loaded with wheat cometo the railway station. The truck drivers are ina hurry to make more rounds and due towhich the speed of the trucks is high. Thechildren of the slum dwellers keep roamingon the road, raising the possibility of a majoraccident happening any time. The districtadministration is aware of the problem, butdue the reasons best known to it has chosento look the other way.

Taraori residents Hanumat Jat, ManishGupta, Gurtej Pal Singh, Satpal Kashyap,Lily Sharma, Dr. Gyan Singh said that earlierthese slum dwellers were camping in HUDA,Sector 1. Hooda officials took action andremoved them from there, after which dozensof slum dwellers started camping under the

overbridge. Along with this, a vegetablemarket was also started under the overbridgein the evening.

The residents say that the administrationshould get the huts built on this road removedso that the problem is resolved before anymishap occurs.

When contacted, Secretary of the

Municipal Committee, Taraori, NarendraSharma said that he has explained to thepeople who set up small vegetable shops onthe road as well as the slum dwellers thatdanger of a road mishap happening. Headmitted that all his pleas have fallen on deafears so far, but promised that he would nowtake a strict action against the violators.

Plantation will restorenature's balance: Garg

RAVI KUMARBABAIN, AUG 23

A plantation drivewas carried out bythe Rotary Club,Babain, here today.The program waspresided over by Dr.Deepak Devgan,President of theRotary Club. The drive waskicked off by social workerSandeep Garg by plantingsaplings. Sandeep Garg saidthat it is important not only toplant saplings but also to takegood care of them after theseare planted. He said that alongwith planting saplings, weshould also take a pledge tonurture them.

Garg said that planting moreand more saplings can act as alife saver for the environment.He said that this is the season ofplantation, so people shouldplant more and more saplings.He said that nature has lost itsbalance because trees are beingcut down, and added that onlyhumans can restore this balance.He said that he had demandedfrom the Haryana government

that there should be a provisionof punishment for the cutting oftrees and a special law shouldbe made for the protection ofnature. Garg said that it wouldbe his endeavour to plant moreand more saplings and take careof them.

Dr. Deepak Degwan,President of Rotary Club, saidthat we should plant more andmore trees during the rainyseason to keep our environmentclean. He said that a target hasbeen set by the Rotary ClubBabain to plant 1,000 saplings.Many dignitaries includingLabh Singh, Balkar Singh,Babbu Bhagwanpur, BalbirRampura, Rakesh Agarwal,Divyadeep Sharma, NaranjanSingh and Labh Singh werepresent on the occasion.

Now unique ID cards willbe made for unorganized

workers: Anuj SharmaRAJINDER SINGHPATHANKOT, AUG 23

Unique ID cards of unorganized workers acrossthe country will now be made on the lines of

family identity cardand Aadhar card.TheMinistry of Labor andEmployment willlaunch this programon August 25. Theabove informationwas given by AnujSharma, President ofCSC DistrictPathankot.He told thatsmall farmers,

laborers engaged in agriculture, cattle rearers, fishsellers, cobblers, workers in brick kilns, houseworkers, street vendors, news paper vendors,carpenters, plumbers, rickshaw and auto rickshawoperators, MNREGA workers, milk vendors,transferred labourers, barbers, Asha workers, teavendors and such workers who are not associatedwith any organization can get all IDs made. He

Decks cleared for new Red Cross building in KaithalRANVIR PRASHARKAITHAL, AUG 23

DC Pradeep Dahiyainspected the office of RedCross Society on Monday.The Deputy Commissionerdiscussed with the Secretaryof Red Cross Society RamjiLal about the arrangementand functioning of thebuilding. In view of thedilapidated condition of theoffice, the DC said that soonthe work for the new RedCross building would start atthe identified place on KarnalRoad. He called a meeting ofSDM Sanjay Kumar, DTPAnil Narwal and Red Crosssecretary Ramji Lal in theoffice located at the MiniSecretariat. In the meeting,the DC instructed the SDMthat the Tehsildar shouldmark the place by Thursday

and after that the SDMshould do the work ofclearing the encroachments.The DC has also ordered theDistrict Town Planner toprepare a map for the newbuilding. Dahiya said that inview of the need of RedCross work, a new building

would be constructed soon sothat different types of RedCross work could be doneunder one roof. Secretary ofRed Cross Society, Ramji Lalsaid that equipments aredistributed by the office fromtime to time to help thedisabled people, but there is

no space with the society tomaintain the equipment.Along with this, the work ofproviding training for firstaid is also done by the RedCross, but due to lack ofproper place, a lot ofproblems are faced and thework gets hampered. TheDeputy Commissioner hasbeen apprised of the matterseveral times in the past aswell. Actually, this buildingof Red Cross Society wasbuilt in the year 1934. Afterthe formation of the district,this office was handed overto the Government Hospital.After this, seeing the need,this building was given to theRed Cross Society. There aresix rooms in the office, out ofwhich department work isdone in two rooms andtraining work is done in oneroom.

Chairman Sekhri initiates project of constructingroads on both sides under Dera Road Railway BridgeSARWANQADIAN, AUG 23

Residents of Dera BabaNanak Road and AliwalRoad have been greatlyrelieved today with theefforts of Chairman AshwaniSekhri. The service laneunder Dera Baba NanakRailway Bridge would bereconstructed at a cost of Rs.77 lakh by the PunjabGovernment. The work ofthis service lane wasinaugurated by the ChairmanPunjab Health SystemsCorporation Ashwani Sekhritoday. On this occasion,SDM Batala S. BalwinderSingh, City CongressPresident Swaran Mudh,Swainder Singh Bhagowaliaand other leaders were alsopresent. Initiating the workof decomposing both sidesunder the railway bridge,Chairman Ashwani Sekhri

said that the residents,shopkeepers and commonpassersby of Dera BabaNanak Road and AliwalRoad were extremelydisturbed by the poorcondition of this road.Sekhri said that in order toalleviate the plight of thepeople of the area, he hadasked the authorities toconstruct a road on both thesides of the bridge, underwhich the construction work

of this road has been startedtoday. He said that theconstruction of this roadwould cost Rs. 77 lakh and itwould be completed by theMunicipal Corporation ofBatala before the wedding.Sekhri asked the officials ofthe corporation to construct aroad under the bridge andalso to install lights here toprovide more convenience tothe passersby andshopkeepers.

Final publication of voter listsof Shahabad, Ismailabad

PARDEEP MEHTAKURUKSHETRA, AUG 23

District Election Officer and Deputy Commissioner MukulKumar said that according to the notification of State ElectionCommission, Haryana Panchkula, a program was issued for

preparation of voterlist of MunicipalityShahabad andM u n i c i p a l i t yI s m a i l a b a d .According to thisprogram, after theinitial publication ofvoter list ofM u n i c i p a l i t yShahbad andM u n i c i p a l i t yIsmailabad onAugust 9, 2021,claims and

objections were taken till August 16, 2021. These claims andobjections have been settled by Revising AuthorityMunicipality Shahbad-cum-Sub-Divisional Officer CitizenShahabad and Revising Authority Municipality Ismailabad-cum-Tehsildar Shahabad. The final publication of voter list ofMunicipality Shahbad and Municipality Ismailabad has beenpublished on 18 August 2021.

Red Cross Committee dedicated to workbased on human values: Bandaru Dattatreya

7th State Level Mega EmploymentFair to be held from Sept 9: ADC

KULJIT SINGHJANDIALA GURU, AUG 23

With a view to realize the dream of Punjab Chief MinisterCapt. Amarinder Singh from door to door employment, thePunjab Government organized 7th Mega Employment Fairsduring the month of September 2021 as part of a series of MegaEmployment Fairs to provide employment opportunities to the

unemployed youth of the state. Is goingdisclosing this here today AdditionalDeputy Commissioner (Development)Mr. Ranbir Singh Moodhal said thatwith a view to make the 7th MegaEmployment Fairs a success, DistrictEmployment and Trade BureauAmritsar would be organizing a total of5 job fairs at various places in the

district during the month of September. Are The PunjabGovernment has set a target to provide employment to about15000 unemployed youth under the door to door employmentscheme. To achieve this goal, representatives of reputed privatecompanies will participate in the fair for the recruitment ofvarious posts. The first mega job fair of this series of 5 fairs isbeing organized on 9th September at Government PolytechnicCollege, Chheharta and apart from 9th September fair 4 morejob fairs in the district will be held on 10th September atDistrict Employment and Business Bureau, DistrictAdministrative Complex, near.

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Tokyo Paralympics:Vinod Kumar, TekChand among 5 Indianathletes to attendopening ceremonyTOKYO: Discus thrower VinodKumar and javelin thrower TekChand are among the five Indi-an athletes who will attend theTokyo Paralympics opening cer-emony.A total of 54 para-athletes fromacross nine sports disciplineswill be featuring in the Para-lympic Games. This is India'sbiggest ever contingent to Par-alympic Games.The Paralympic Games isscheduled to be held betweenAugust 24 and September 5.Thangavelu Mariyappan, Rio2016 Gold Medal winner, will bethe flag bearer of India in theopening ceremony.Powerlifters Jai Deep and Saki-na Khatun are the other para-athletes who will attend theParalympics opening ceremony.Gursharan Singh, India's Chefde Mission, Deputy Chef deMission (CDM) Arhan Bagati,and coach of para-athleticsteam Satyanarayana areamong the six Indian officialswho will attend the opening cer-emony.

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Eng vs Ind: Visitors sweat in outat Headingley ahead of third Test

Novak Djokovic is stillfavourite for US Open, saysin-form Alexander Zverev

CINCINNATI : Riding on an 11-match winning streak af-ter winning the Western & Southern Open, the German ten-nis star, Alexander Zverev still thinks that Novak Djokovicis the favourite for the next week's US Open. Zverev got past

Andrey Rublev 6-2, 6-3 to lift his fifth ATPMasters 1000 title andbecome the first Ger-man champion inCincinnati since BorisBecker in 1985. TheWorld No. 5 capturedhis fourth tour-leveltrophy of the seasonhaving already wongold in Olympic sin-gles in Tokyo. "The USOpen is a week thateverybody is lookingforward to. I think No-vak [Djokovic] will beback. He's obviouslygoing to be the

favourite, as well. But I think other guys are going to be ingreat shape," Zverev said as per ATPTour.com. Notably,World number one, Novak Djokovic has not played an eventsince Tokyo where Zverev ended his bid for the GoldenGrand Slam this season. "I do think that he's still thefavourite. I do think he's going to be playing incredible ten-nis there," Zverev said. "He's going to be fresh, and I thinkthere is also other guys that are in very good form. I thinkRublev is in very good form, Medvedev, Tsitsipas, all thoseguys are playing great tennis. In women's, world no.1 Ash-leigh Barty of Australia continued her stellar season, notch-ing her tour-leading fifth WTA singles title of the year byclaiming the Western & Southern Open trophy for the firsttime.

WI vs Pak, 2nd Test:Fawad showed us howto apply ourselves on

this wicket, says HolderAGENCYKINGSTON, AUG 23

West Indies all-rounder Jason Holder said Fawad Alamshowed the hosts that how can a batsman "apply" himself ona tricky wicket here at Sabina Park in the ongoing secondTest.

Fawad, the Pakistan middle-order batsman, hit a bril-liant hundred before Shaheen Shah Afridi picked two wick-

ets to put visitors inthe driver's seat inthe second Testagainst West Indieson Sunday (localtime).

Fawad strokedhis fifth career centu-ry, fourth since hiscomeback 12 monthsago, as Pakistanwrestled back in theSabina Park Testmarred by rain thatlost the entire secondday's play and more

than the first session's play on the third day due to wetground.

"I think it's a new ball wicket. If you can get past the newball with little damage, it's a very good track to bat on,"Holder said after the day's play as per Windies Cricket.

"Fawad obviously showed us how to apply ourselves.He was very, very patient. In these kinds of situations tryingto see off a day becomes quite tricky for batters, and the newball will definitely count in these kinds of conditions," headded. The West Indies all-rounder expects the pitch to be-come even when the hosts come out to bat on Monday.

"I expect tomorrow when the sun comes out and every-thing is pretty much even, the pitch should level off and set-tle down," said Holder.

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Virat Kohli-led Indian side has be-gun training for the upcoming thirdTest against England here at Head-ingley Stadium.

The visitors arrived here onSunday for the third Test. The thirdTest between the two sides will getunderway from Wednesday.

The Board of Control for Crick-et in India (BCCI) on Sunday sharedpictures from Team India's training

sessions. "Turning the heat on atHeadingley," BCCI tweeted. Thefirst Test had ended in a draw but In-dia staged an incredible comebackto take the second game. India andEngland provided an intense specta-cle on day five of the second Test asplayers from both sides engaged inverbals and in the end, it was Kohli'steam who emerged triumphant in anengaging match. After the win in thethird Test, India opening batsmanKL Rahul said that if the oppositionchooses to engage in verbals with

his side, then they very well knowhow to give it back. Last week, Eng-land men's head coach Chris Silver-wood has named a 15-player squadfor the third Test. Yorkshire batsmanDawid Malan returned to the Testsquad for the first time in threeyears. Lancashire seamer SaqibMahmood has also been included.He has yet to make his Test debutbut will be aiming to add to his Eng-land credentials, having alreadybeen capped by the senior side inODIs and IT20s.

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GLAMOURVaani Kapoor turns 33: Actor shares her excitement about upcoming films

ctor Vaani Kapoor shared her excitement about the year that lies ahead as she rang in her 33rd birthday on Monday. The Bollywood diva who has big entertainers like A'Shamshera' with Ranbir Kapoor and 'Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui' with Ayushmann

Khurrana in her kitty shared that she is hopeful for these movies to position her 'correctly' as a performer in the film industry. Vaani said, "I have an exciting year to look forward to actually! I have two big films Shamshera and Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui that are ready to release in theatres and I'm hoping they will entertain audiences thoroughly. These two films will also present me in completely different avatars and I can't wait to see the reaction from people for my performances." The 'Befikre' actor shared that she has worked tremendously hard for 'Shamshera' and 'Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui' and is delighted about how they have shaped up."I have been choosy about the films that I select because I want to pick quality content over quantity and I'm proud of both Shamshera and Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui. They are

films that will hopefully position me correctly as a performer who is looking to take the risks and push myself constantly to

make a mark," the birthday girl shared. Vaani was last seen in the recently released movie 'Bell Bottom'

alongside superstar Akshay Kumar. Directed by Ranjit M Tewari, the spy thriller film also features Lara Dutta and Huma Qureshi. Speaking about her upcoming movies: 'Shamshera' produced by Yash Raj Films, is said to be a dacoit drama set in the 19th century. It will chronicle the story of a dacoit tribe fighting for their right and

independence from the British. Apart from Vaani, it will feature superstars Ranbir

Kapoor and Sanjay Dutt. On the other hand,

'Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui' is a modern-day love story, which has been produced by Bhushan Kumar's T-Series in collaboration with Pragya Kapoor's Guy In the Sky Pictures. This movie will mark the first-ever collaboration between Vaani and Ayushmann.

"I have been choosy about the films that I select because I want

to pick quality content over quantity and I'm proud of both

Shamshera and Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui. They are films that will

hopefully position me correctly as a performer who is looking to take

the risks and push myself constantly to make a mark," the

birthday girl shared.

Tahir Raj Bhasin opens up about as film clocks 7 years

'Mardaani'

ctor Tahir Raj Bhasin, who made his film debut with the 2014 movie 'Mardaani', on its seventh Aanniversary, recently opened up how his villainous act

in the movie earned him spotlight and awards, setting him up to have a long career in Bollywood.Tahir, who was cast opposite powerhouse performer Rani Mukerji in 'Mardaaani', where she played the role of a firebrand cop chasing a cold-blooded human trafficker, still he managed to hold his own with his spine chilling villainous act. Talking about how the Yash Raj production film earned him industry's recognition as an actor, he said, "Mardaani was an explosive break for me. My life transformed with its release and has never been the same. The film has played a central role in the recognition I have received as a powerful actor." He further added, "As a debut film, Mardaani cut through the clutter and its uniqueness lay in how Walt, the anti-hero, was projected and stylised by Pradeep Sarkar. People had seen the boy next door, Mardaani gave them the bad boy next door." Tahir said he learnt a lot from Rani who pushed him to deliver a knock-out performance. "Sharing screen space with Rani Mukerji was a challenge and hugely rewarding. Being cast against a star of her stature means you have to up your game and this led to the need to be in peak performance state from day one." He continued his appreciation for Rani and said, "I was working with a star whose work I have grown up watching and on set I learnt through her example. I understood how to be extremely focused when it counts and to relax so one can step out of the zone when you don't need to be in it. I also saw a sterling commitment to the craft and a work ethic that I try and carry with me to date."

Kartik Aaryan resumes shooting for Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2

ctor Kartik Aaryan on Sunday night confirmed that he has resumed Ashooting for one of his much-awaited

films- 'Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2' that also stars Kiara Advani and Tabu in key roles. Taking to his

Instagram handle, Kartik shared a selfie picture featuring him with Tabu from the

sets of 'Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2'. Sharing the picture, he wrote, "Begin Again

#BhoolBhulaiyaa2." On a related note, the actor is simultaneously shooting for his upcoming romantic thriller film 'Freddy' in Mumbai. Speaking about

'Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2', the movie is the sequel of the 2007 psychological horror comedy film of the same name. The comic supernatural thriller will be helmed by Anees Bazmee, unlike the first one which was directed by Priyadarshan. The first part of the film was a remake of the Malayalam blockbuster 'Manichitrathazhu' which starred Akshay Kumar in the lead besides, other actors including Vidya Balan, Shiney Ahuja, Amisha Patel, and Rajpal Yadav. Rajpal will make a comeback to entertain the audience with his rib-tickling comic role in the sequel of 'Bhool Bhulaiyaa' in which Kartik will play the lead role alongside Kiara.

Farah Khan reminisces about 'fun' memories from 'Kuchh Na Kaho' shoot days

ilmmaker and choreographer Farah Khan Kunder on Monday got nostalgic and treated fans to a priceless BTS picture featuring herself with Manisha FKoirala from the film set of '1942: A Love Story'. Taking to her Instagram

handle, Farah shared the picture which has her posing for the camera along with veteran star Manisha Koirala and director-screenwriter Vicky Chopra. Sharing the picture, Farah wrote, "Monday Memories!! Thats the beautiful @m_koirala n unbelievably the skinny girl is me! with #vickychopra goofing as always on the song shoot of #1942alovestory .. #kuchnakahokuchbhinakaho #farahkefundays." The picture features the trio posing at the set of the romantic song 'Kuchh Na Kaho' from the film. The song was composed by R. D. Burman with lyrics by Javed Akhtar and vocals by Kumar Sanu. It was the swan song of R. D. Burman, released three months after his death in January 1994. Ronu Majumdar played the flute for the song. The song was highly acclaimed and is still considered one of the ever-green songs from the 90s. Along with 'Ek Ladki Ko Dekha' from the same movie, the song represented Kumar Sanu's peak as a singer. '1942: A Love Story', is a 1994 Hindi patriotic romance film, directed and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra, starring Anil Kapoor, Jackie Shroff, Manisha Koirala, Anupam Kher, Danny Denzongpa, and Pran. The movie earned praise for its music, songs, cinematography, lyrics, and the portrayal of leading lady Manisha Koirala which marked a turning point in her acting career. The film received thirteen nominations

at the 40th Filmfare Awards, winning nine.

Priyanka celebrates Raksha Bandhan with brotherSiddharth after 5 years

lobal star Priyanka Chopra Jonas, on Sunday, celebrated the festival of Raksha Bandhan Gwith her brother Siddharth Chopra and mother

Madhu and shared a bunch of photos featuring her family. Priyanka took to her Instagram handle and shared the pictures, along with the caption, "First time together in 5 years on Raksha Bandhan! Love you lil brother @siddharthchopra89. Also #HappyRakhi to my army of brothers! Sending love and rakhis wherever you are...expecting my gifts soon too- Love, Mimi." Out of the four pictures shared by Priyanka, the first one featured the star with her brother Siddharth, as they stood beside each other and smiled at the camera. The second picture showed Priyanka tying a Rakhi on Siddharth's wrist. The third one was especially sweet as fans could see a smiling Priyanka holding a white mug in her hand,

most probably a Rakhi gift from her brother.The mug had the words "Being my sister is really the

only gift you need. Love you" printed on it. The last and the fourth picture featured the Chopra family posing

together with mother Madhu Chopra, Priyanka, and Siddharth.Meanwhile, on the work front, Priyanka has been shooting in

London for her upcoming show 'Citdel', which is a spy-thriller directed by The Russo Brothers. It stars Priyanka and 'Game of Thrones' fame actor Richard Madden in lead roles.She recently launched an Indian restaurant called Sona in New York and also released her memoir titled 'Unfinished' earlier this year. Priyanka will next be seen in 'Text For You' which also features Celine Dion and Sam Heughan in the lead roles. Apart from that, she will also be seen in 'Matrix 4' and the recently announced Bollywood film 'Jee Le Zaraa', which will mark actor-filmmaker Farhan Akhtar's return as a director.